Fame quotes
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"Of course, I came up around music and fame, but this is still my first time experiencing it all. I'm still going through it like anybody else goes through it. But I'm still doing something I've never done before."
"That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame."
"There are many waies to fame. {There are many ways to fame.]"
"It stirs up envy, fame does."
"I do not like to "interest" the public with myself."
"Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God."
"Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true."
"Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it."
"I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it."
"When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame."
"Virtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune."
"We only serve as a model for the portrait of our fame."
"Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere."
"I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me."
"Some people can handle fame, some can't."
"I was going to get myself recognized at any price. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by badness."
"Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good enough."
"The dispersing and scattering our names into many mouths, we call making them more great."
"We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak."
"The thing that inspires me about Daniel Radcliffe and the thing that I admire the most about him is that he's had a level of fame thrust upon him that's relatively unheard of."
