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Fame Quotes


"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."


"Fame is nothing but the sum of all the misunderstandings that cluster around a new name. Wherever a human achievement becomes truly great, it seeks to hide its face in the lap of general, nameless greatness."


"Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity."


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


"He wants as many victors as possible for the cameras to follow in the Capitol. Thinks it makes for better television.""Are you and Beetee going?" I ask."As many young and attractive victors as possible," Haymitch corrects himself. "So, no. We'll be here."


"Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done."


"Fame is an epiphany of bubbles that are transient and pugnacious."


"Fame is proof that people are gullible."


"When you're being celebrated and flying high, don't allow fanatics (fans) to elevate you so far out that you forget whose sky it is."


"She was one of those people who are famous beyond their actual achievement."


"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else."


"Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity."


"Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known."


"I think that fame removes true happiness. Because when you are famous, people know you for who they think you are and when you are happy, it's because people have met you and see you for who you really are. Of course, if you are not a great person, it's better to be famous. But if you have greatness, it's better to not be famous."


"A celebrity starts being a cele-crazy when he's seen often, he's just like the ordinary man in the streets. Without much ado to shout his name, i go my way."



"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!"
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