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"After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school."
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"Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable."
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"Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him."
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"Indy makes the race driver. You become famous when you come here."
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"I got the famous Oprah hug!"
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"Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool."
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"I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous."
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"When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'"
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"I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist."
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"I want to be famous everywhere."
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"It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have found its way into print."
Belief

"Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us."
Famous

"I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long."
Fear

"Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now."
Now

"Reading is my greatest luxury."
Luxury

"I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal."
Thought

"Remember that what you have is unique because it's your own special way of looking at the world."
World

"When dad told me Mr Steptoe had passed away, I broke down."
Father

"Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing."
Want

"The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people."
People
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