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"Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him."
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"If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before."
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"The real harm of term extension comes not from these famous works. The real harm is to the works that are not famous, not commercially exploited, and no longer available as a result."
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"To be famous and broke is hard."
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"Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys."
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"I'm the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous."
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"When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'"
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"The big thing that everyone forgets, you're famous and on TV and everything, but I think there's something very rewarding to be able to write a song, record it, and have it turn out as you heard it in your head, or even better."
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"I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous."
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"Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else."
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"Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception."
Children

"I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none."
Land

"Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else."
Famous

"I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control."
Control

"We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off."
Children

"Life is generally something that happens elsewhere."
Life

"Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore."
Cancer

"Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching."
Life

"I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out."
Mind

"My films are about embarrassment."
Embarrassment
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