A friend told me that one day he and I would be rich and famous. I told him that I'd trade my half of the fame, for his half of the money.
Quentin R. BufogleFantastic,” I said without an ounce of enthusiasm. “I’m just one more embarrassing confession away from taking over the world.” --Spencer Nye
Jason LettsTags: fame confessions dystopian-fiction
Being famous is wicked, but being normal is better.
Rupert GrintNames turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.
Joe AbercrombieWell, I wasn't going to abuse him. I was only going to ask: Is there any quality which distinguishes his work from that of twenty struggling writers one could name? Of course not. He's a clever, prolific man; so are they. But he began with money and friends; he came from Oxford into the thick of advertised people; his name was mentioned in print six times a week before he had written a dozen articles. This kind of thing will become the rule. Men won't succeed in literature that they may get into society, but will get into society that they may succeed in literature.
George GissingTags: fame
A person who's going to be famous usually drops a few clues by the time they're twenty-one.
Frank D. GilroyTags: fame prodigy 21 twenty-one
Do not yearn to be popular; be exquisite. Do not desire to be famous; be loved. Do not take pride in being expected; be palpable, unmistakable.
C. JoyBell C.Tags: inspirational inspirational-quotes fame life-and-living popularity inspirational-life quotes-for-women womens-inspirational
Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
Karl LagerfeldTags: wisdom art work story fame fashion quote educational quotes brand name designer karl-lagerfeld lebel lebeling overact tip
The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become 'somebody,' and frankly, I don't have the least ambition to become anybody.
Frida KahloComfort me by a solemn Assurance, that when the little Parlour in which I sit at this Instant, shall be reduced to a worse furnished Box, I shall be read, with Honour, by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor see.
Henry FieldingTags: writing death fame posterity
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