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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."

"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."

"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."

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

"Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name."
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"If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me."
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