"The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness."

Fame, Celebrity

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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

Fame, Legend, Meaning, Identity

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

W. H. Auden, English Poet

Fame, Writer

"And it's great to have all these readers and fans who, for the most part, are very nice people, saying they love the books and the TV show. But there are so many of them and it just doesn't end. Oh, and 'selfies'! If I could clap my hands and burn out every camera phone in the world, I swear I'd do it!"

George R. R. Martin, American Author

Fame, Fans, Social, Media

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

Bernard Kelvin Clive, Ghanaian Author

Fame, Shame, Success, Humility

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

Jeffrey Fry, American Author

Fame, Excess, Money, Alcohol

"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

Fame, Fire, May, Will

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

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Fame, Misunderstanding, Reputation, Name

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

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Fame, Misunderstanding, Name, Life

"I am your number one fan."

Stephen King, American Author

Fame, Obsession, Power, Love, Emotion

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

A. D. Posey, American Poet

Fame, Values, Threat, Power

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"Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be."

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"As you make your bed, so you must lie in it."

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"The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing.""

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"We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place."

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"We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman."

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"The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century."

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"A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you."

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"Nothing is really real unless it happens on television."

Nothing

"The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises."

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