fame

Nothing in life was ever clearly drawn, obviously just, or totally emotionally satisfying, but the moment-to-moment stuff of reality featured infinitely more complication, sleaze, struggle, true beauty, unfairness, profundity, passion, and depth of consciousness than she, in her frantic struggle to be somebody other than her unspectacular self, had been previously aware of. page 302

No star fades faster than that of a high school athlete.

He might be famous (local newspaper or television) for finding it, true__ut if fame takes away the thing it celebrates, then Sebastien would prefer the inspired silence. We__e all famous in our own hearts anyway.

A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes.

I think it's nice for stars to do interviews to make us think they are just like us, but to tell you the truth, I get the feeling that it's all a big lie. The problem is I don't know who's lying.

The charm of fame is so great, that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Fame is vanity's bait.

Sun glasses are the unofficial celebrities_ uniform.

And now, finished with that puzzling mixture of insane intimacy and isolation which is notoriety, Velvet was able to get on quietly to her next adventures.

Fame is not gifted, you have to earn it.

How can I have my 15 minutes of fame when open mics only allow you to perform for 10 minutes.

I should never have dreamed of purpose, I am coming to the conclusion that privacy, the small individual lives of men, are preferable to all this inflated macrocosmic activity.

Most people don__ understand performers are really sheltered and protected so much sometimes that they don__ get a chance to live their lives.

It's not the game, Zee. It's the fame. Everyone wants to be affiliated with a winner.

I missed the crowds in those big stadiums, the flashbulbs, the roaring cheers - the majesty of the whole thing. I missed it bitterly. So did my father. We shared a thirst to return; unspoken, undeniable.

Climbing towards fame, recognition and popularity is very much pleasant; but all its sweetness does not count even for a day of going down.

Fame & fortune come with a price that fame finds insulting and fortune can't afford to pay back.

A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow.