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Famous Quotes
"I mean he's a very famous director... they're not going to put their... and he's very tough, he doesn't like interference at all, so he kept them at bay."
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"I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous."
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"I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash."
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"It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey."
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"If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror."
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"But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom."
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"Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool."
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"The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships."
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"Quentin is very organic; there was no way that he was going to put someone else's hand in there and anyway, my hands are kind of famous. It seemed right."
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"It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't be anonymous."
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"There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star."
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"Berry Gordy turned his house into a studio and discovered over 30 acts in the city. And we're famous all over the world."
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"They gave it to us for about five bucks a week, and we just went there to live. Probably the first band that ever did that back then and it became the famous cottage."
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"I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins and I think there's something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name With somebody who either is famous or becomes famous."
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"I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s."
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"A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra."
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"The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did."
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"I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world."
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"If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out, and you become down and out, you have a really new perspective."
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"I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you."
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"The big thing that everyone forgets, you're famous and on TV and everything, but I think there's something very rewarding to be able to write a song, record it, and have it turn out as you heard it in your head, or even better."
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"Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous."
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"I'm not unknown, yet I'm not super famous where I can't go anywhere."
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"Your face is your calling card, but you're not so famous that you can't go out."
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"I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano."
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"I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy."
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"I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is "In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.""
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"Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them."
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"I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't yet... It's the worst thing to be trapped in your house not be able to leave."
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