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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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"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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"Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA."
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"I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning."
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"I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path."
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"We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this."
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"It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich."
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"I'm not unknown, yet I'm not super famous where I can't go anywhere."
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"I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s."
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"The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too."
Woman

"Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing."
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"People still come up to me and ask whether I am Louise Brown or if they've seen me somewhere else before."
People

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

"The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places."
People

"Remember that what you have is unique because it's your own special way of looking at the world."
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"I don't envy men and I certainly wouldn't like to become one now."
Men

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

"I like many types of music and probably too many to mention here."
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"Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls."
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