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"Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet."
"I don't care about being a star. I can do a supporting role; I don't have to be a lead."
"If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing."
"I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl."
"When I was 15, I changed my name legally. I think it was largely due to my struggle about being gay. Everything just didn't fit, and I was trying to find things I could identify myself with, and it started with my name."
"Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions."
"I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building."
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"Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement."
"Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility."
"One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care."
"This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure."
"The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success."
"The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own."
"The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance."
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