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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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"Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame."
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"I think that fame removes true happiness. Because when you are famous, people know you for who they think you are and when you are happy, it's because people have met you and see you for who you really are. Of course, if you are not a great person, it's better to be famous. But if you have greatness, it's better to not be famous."
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"Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known."
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"Regis and I were inducted into the original Bronx Walk of Fame."
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"She was one of those people who are famous beyond their actual achievement."
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"Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead."
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"Heroes don't have friends, they have fans."
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"He wants as many victors as possible for the cameras to follow in the Capitol. Thinks it makes for better television.""Are you and Beetee going?" I ask."As many young and attractive victors as possible," Haymitch corrects himself. "So, no. We'll be here."
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"Don't rush to rise to fame, lest you will be lashed in shame."
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"My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist."
Mother
"I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston."
Music
"Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame."
Fame
"You can be enticed by food, wooed by food, sex, money, or instruments."
Food
"As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape."
Writing
"Usually, I just do what I want, because I got it that way."
Want
"People like my voice and say I can sing, but I don't like microphones in front of my face: it distracts me."
People
"I don't listen to a lot of radio today. It's not really music to me."
Music
"Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton."
Ability
"The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be."
Fight
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