"I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am."

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"I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am."

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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

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"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."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Fame, Opinion, Superficiality, Appearance, Expression

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

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"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

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"If you see my fifteen minutes of fame let me know I've been searching for it for years."

Stanley Victor Paskavich, American Politician

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

Bernard Kelvin Clive, Ghanaian Author

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

Jeffrey Fry, American Author

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"I awoke one morning and found myself famous."

Lord Byron, British Poet

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"Fame is like drifting clouds, transient and ephemeral. Memory is forever."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Fame, Transience, Ephemeral, Memory

"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

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