Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.
Rainer Maria RilkeTags: patience fame openness ego receptivity
Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying
Gerard WayTags: fame death-and-dying immortality
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
Andy WarholA breeze ruffled the neat hedges of Privet Drive, which lay silent and tidy under the inky sky, the very last place you would expect astonishing things to happen. Harry Potter rolled over inside his blankets without waking up. One small hand closed on the letter beside him and he slept on, not knowing he was special, not knowing he was famous, not knowing he would be woken in a few hours' time by Mrs. Dursley's scream as she opened the front door to put out the milk bottles, nor that he would spend the next few weeks being prodded and pinched by his cousin Dudley...He couldn't know that at this very moment, people meeting in secret all over the country were holding up their glasses and saying in hushed voices: "To Harry Potter - the boy who lived!
J.K. RowlingTags: innocence fate harry-potter fame dursley
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert BenchleyThink champagne, drink champagne!
Ellen DeanTags: fame alcohol drink champagne bottle
Selbst die Verwandten der Berühmten [sind] berühmt, denn Ruhm [ist] erblich.
Hanif KureishiTags: fame pop_culture
Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
Erica JongTags: fame
If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
Albert EinsteinTags: fame nationality infamy
Not marble nor the gilded monuments
Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme,
But you shall shine more bright in these contents
Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time.
When wasteful war shall statues overturn
And broils roots out the work of masonry,
Nor mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn
The living record of your memory.
'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity
Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room
Even in the eyes of all posterity
That wear this world out to the ending doom.
So, till judgement that yourself arise,
You in this, and dwell in lovers eyes.
Tags: art fame memory remembrance posterity monuments sonnet-55
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