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"Fame turns out to be a powerful instrument of grace because it humbles its chosen victims in a hurry. You sail into it, your canvas swelled with grandiosity, and when your fifteen minutes are over and you are becalmed, you realize that grandiosity cannot take you where you need to go.Only then do you learn to row like hell, asking God for the strength to stay afloat."
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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."
"A model's opinion seldom matters. The only time that he is required to open his mouth is when he is required to smile at the camera."
"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!"
"If you see my fifteen minutes of fame let me know I've been searching for it for years."
"I awoke one morning and found myself famous."
"Fame is like drifting clouds, transient and ephemeral. Memory is forever."
"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."
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"You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy."
"The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise."
"I went for years not finishing anything. Because of course when you finish something you can be judged.... I had poems which were rewritten so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out."
"I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity."
"Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life."
"Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world."
"If every day I dare to remember that I am here on loan that this house this hillside these minutes are all leased to me not given I will never despair."
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