"I don't think about being famous, really. Being an author, I don't generally get stopped as I walk down the street. It's not like being a movie star."

Fame, Truth, Reality, Happiness, Wisdom

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"I don't think about being famous, really. Being an author, I don't generally get stopped as I walk down the street. It's not like being a movie star."

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"People keep telling me that I'm a legend in Merthyr and a legend in many other places. Here's my understanding on that, what's a legend? I don't really know what a legend is, I don't even know the word. I'm not a King Arthur reincarnate either. I might be one of the Round Table, but I'm not King Arthur."

Stephen Richards, British Author

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"Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"Don't rush to rise to fame, lest you will be lashed in shame."

Bernard Kelvin Clive, Ghanaian Author

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"Too much fame, money or alcohol can make you stupid."

Jeffrey Fry, American Author

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"Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

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"Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

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"I am your number one fan."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Fame is neither something to value nor to view as a threat."

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"The glory of fame isn't in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you care. Otherwise, it's like being drawn to a fire to find no warmth."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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