celebrities

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

When I pass my name in such large letters I blush but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

Adlai Stevenson - a Henry James character in a Reader's Digest world.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt it takes off the edge of admiration.

One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.

Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever.

Sun glasses are the unofficial celebrities_ uniform.

Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done.

His being famous didn__ give him a right to use her and treat her like dirt.

An art prodigy of the 21st century has yet to be crowned. Or have they?

The happiness of being envied is glamour.Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you. You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest - if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.

I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read.I used to refer to my drug use as putting the monster in the box. I wanted to be less, so I took more - simple as that. Anyway, I eventually decided that the reason Dr. Stone had told me I was hypomanic was that he wanted to put me on medication instead of actually treating me. So I did the only rational thing I could do in the face of such as insult - I stopped talking to Stone, flew back to New York, and married Paul Simon a week later.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

I applied at Tower Records on Sunset Boulevard after my band broke up. I really wanted to work there because it involved the love of my life, music. It was also located on the world famous Sunset Strip, a place I dreamed of going to ever since I was a teenager in the 80's to become a rock star.

A celebrity's body is an advertiser's canvas.

Stars are attributed w/ intelligence they don't have, beauty they haven't worked for, loyaly & love they are incapable of reciprocating, and strength they do not possess. They are treated like a beautiful vase of cut flowers. When wilted, simply replaced w/ new blooms.

The key to being a great agent is treating everyone like a celebrity and treating a celebrity like everyone else.