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“His fame as an artist requires very tender care. Look what a mask of diplomacy is painstakingly formed by the whole of that fine profile; he is as wily as a cardinal. He has scented in Miss White a...”
“The moments you are given are your true wealth. You don't need power, influence, or fame. The sunlight brings the power; the wind carries the influence. And as for fame, well, when you allow yourse...”
“Put off this sloth,' the master said, 'for shame!Sitting on feather-pillows, lying reclined Beneath the blanket is no way to fame -Fame, without which man's life wastes out of mind, Leaving on eart...”
“When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.”
“When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.”
“My goal is not to have everlasting fame, it is simply to write the stories that are asking me to write them and to share them with the people that want to hear them.”
“So when people see me walking on the street, they feel like we're old pals. Women pull my cheeks and men clap me on the shoulder; I'm like a petting zoo. But movie stars, on the other hand, are muc...”
“It's not the number of contacts you cultivate but the diversity and depth of connections that leverage your opportunity to use best talents more often to accomplish more.”
“Fame means being respected by everybody, or having some quality that is desired by all men, or by most, or by the good, or by the wise.”
“Too many film schools, as well as any number of screenwriting gurus and an obscene number of how-to-write tomes, have made a business of catering to fledgling screenwriters and filmmakers by exploi...”
“... A man is not usually called upon to have an opinion of his own talents at all, since he can very well go on improving them to the best of his ability without deciding on his own precise niche i...”
“Sarcasm is the new staircase to stardom.”
“You really want my honest opinion? I ask. Anton gestures for me to go on. Please, this is why I hired you, devochka. I detect a little hint of sarcasm, but I go ahead and say, I hate restaurants li...”
“Fame is a funny thing, like a secret, both are hard to keep.”
“Mercy, how we do so often love to immortalize those despised and forgotten in life.”
“Inscriptions here of various Names I view'd,The greater part by hostile time subdu'd;Yet wide was spread their fame in ages past,And Poets once had promis'd they should last.”
“I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensi...”
“A person's self worth or inner merit is the essential commodity, whereas fame is something secondary, the mere shadow of merit. "It is not fame but whereby we merit it that is of true value....a ma...”
“For the average person leading an ordinary life, fame holds an hypnotic attraction. Many would sooner perish than exist in anonymity. But for the unlucky few who've had notoriety forced upon them, ...”
“Dont just make a name for yourself on earth; let your name be written in the book of life in Heaven, the seat of the Sovereign God!”
