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I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.
Kevin Kline

Away, Room, Piano

Celebrity culture, it's everywhere, isn't it? It's reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day?
Ryan Giggs

Successful, Reality, Why

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.
Peter Carey

Writer, Fame, Village

I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.
Amanda Hocking

Long, Writing, Write

It's not that I don't want to become famous or that I'm obsessed by my work as an actress, but it's all about not limiting myself, such as putting myself in a little jail that I can escape from.
Sarah Polley

Work, Become, Escape

I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know that they have become famous around the world through my writings, but I think they are a little puzzled by this.
Mo Yan

Today, Down, Through

I don't care how famous a guitarist is, he ain't learned everything. There's always somewhere to go, something to mash up, but he ain't found it yet. You never learn everything on that guitar neck.
David Edwards

Care, Everything, Guitar

Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians.
Paula Danziger

After, Name, Characters

I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.
Juliette Lewis

Love, Creative, Whole

I'm really not for famous people who design a line for a company, when you know it's not really them creating it but a team of designers, especially when there are so many talented people who've taken the time to go and study fashion.
Bonnie Wright

Time, Design, Fashion

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
Alan Bennett

Someone, Else, Knowing

I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say, 'I don't understand why this is happening to me.' There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn't some magical thing that just started happening.
Chad Kroeger

Thought, Understand, Why

I think actors are divided into two groups: one that wants to be an actor to become famous and rich, and the other that wants to be an actor because they have to be. I'm more in the second group.
Franka Potente

Two, Rich, Become

I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize.
Danny Strong

Writers, Shows, Tv

I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called Crossroads. It was first on television 25 years ago, and it has recently been brought back. I play the part of a businessman called David Wheeler.
Jeremy Bulloch

Play, Rather, Three

I can deal with it now, but 13 is a tough age to be recognized and famous. It's a tough age, period.
Bill Skarsgard

Age, Tough, Deal

These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like.
Catherine Keener

Place, Days, Naive

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.
Alison Lohman

Having bodyguards is just part of being famous, I think.
Dolph Lundgren

By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.
Ron Suskind

Game, Treat, Almost

I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I had trouble with food, I got a nutritionist. There's no story there.
Courtney Thorne Smith

Food, Hard, Story

'Howard the Duck!' That's a really interesting movie. I appreciate my career, because I've had a lot of very interesting ups and downs, and most people... That movie is such a famous flop. In a land of a lot of flops, it's kind of awesome to be in a really famous flop. I mean, it's kind of a poster child for flops.
Lea Thompson

Mean, Career, Child

Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared.
January Jones

Business, Fun, Different

At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north; and that was - almost daily meeting with famous men.
Ernest Thompson Seton

Men, Travel, Daily

Right now I'm the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I hope there's not going to be any other silent movies.
Berenice Bejo

Hope, Movies, Keep

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