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"Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town."
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"Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost."
"It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it."
"A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity."
"At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing."
"It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill."
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"The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His works means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning."
"Because it's indeed difficult to portray, in any meaningful depth, another being, his appearance, speech, mentality, without to some degree, and often for quite trifling cause, offending him. The truth seems to be the nobody likes to see himself described as he is, or cares to see exactly set down what he said and did. Well, even i can understand that - because i don't like it myself when I am the sitter not the portraitist: the frailty of egos- and the more accurate the strokes, the greater the resentment."
"I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years."
"I've always seen myself as a winner even as a kid. If I hadn't I just might have gone down the drain a couple of times. I've got something inside of me peasantlike and stubborn and I'm in it 'til the end of the race."
"You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend."
"The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel."
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