The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.
Fannie FlaggThe public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious kick.
Grace MetaliousBut Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.
J.K. RowlingTags: funny fame celebrity dumbledore
French Louis Seymour of the West Canada Creek, who knew how to survive all alone in a treacherous wilderness, and Mr. Alfred G. Vanderbilt of New York City and Raquette Lake, who was richer than God and traveled in his very own Pullman car, and Emmie Hubbard of the Uncas Road, who painted the most beautiful pictures when she was drunk and burned them in her woodstove when she was sober, were all ten times more interesting to me than Milton's devil or Austen's boy-crazy girls or that twitchy fool of Poe's who couldn't think of any place better to bury a body than under his own damn floor.
Jennifer DonnellyTags: humor life books characters fame
I'm an instant star, just add water.
David BowieTags: fame
I have to seem like a human being all the time, but I seldom have to be one. I have people to do that for me.
Alan BennettLolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.
Vladimir NabokovI stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
Shirley Temple BlackTags: humour fame santa-claus
It seems obvious, looking back, that the artists of Weimar Germany and Leninist Russia lived in a much more attenuated landscape of media than ours, and their reward was that they could still believe, in good faith and without bombast, that art could morally influence the world. Today, the idea has largely been dismissed, as it must in a mass media society where art's principal social role is to be investment capital, or, in the simplest way, bullion. We still have political art, but we have no effective political art. An artist must be famous to be heard, but as he acquires fame, so his work accumulates 'value' and becomes, ipso-facto, harmless. As far as today's politics is concerned, most art aspires to the condition of Muzak. It provides the background hum for power.
Robert HughesTags: politics art capitalism creativity entertainment fame revolution artists consuemrism
Fame is a form - perhaps the worst form - of incomprehension.
Jorge Luis BorgesTags: fame
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