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“It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.”

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Book:The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)

Source: The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)

“Hillary Clinton was actually inducted into the Irish American Hall of Fame yesterday. Hillary said she's very proud of her Irish heritage or her Italian heritage or her Asian heritage. Whatever it takes to seal the deal with you guys. I've got to get into that Oval Office.”

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Author:Jimmy Fallon

“One might feel indignant at the injustice which deals out what is called fame with so unequal a hand, were it not for the reflection that men who are competent to add to the intellectual wealth of the world, and enlarge the domain of knowledge, have learned to take popular applause at its true value, and to find in the faithful discharge of honorable duty a satisfaction which is its own reward.”

Source: Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-general U. S. Army

“I never set out to achieve anything, certainly not fame like this,I still have to deal with how to actually make my life work.”

Stills Deals Achieve Fame

Author:Robert Pattinson

“Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive.”

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Author:Jodhi May

“Regardless of how much you enjoy your work, you must accept that everything won't come easily. No one has clear sailing on their voyage to success. You will always meet obstacles to overcome. The attainment of real success isn't based on the absence of problems, but the extraordinary ability to deal with problems. Indeed, you will find greatest satisfaction in overcoming the toughest of problems thrown your way. And only by overcoming great difficulties can you achieve greatness in this world.”

“A lot of people think that fame is the Band-Aid that cures their ills. I'm no kid, and I knew long before I got famous that wasn't the deal. I'm the court jester, not the queen.”

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Author:Sharon Stone

“The hardest thing to do is to trust people. Even if you know them from way back when, it's hard to trust people. There's a lot we have to deal with, and it's the price of fame.”

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Author:Dwight Howard

“When I was 18 I was an emotional wreck and I couldn't imagine having to deal with some kind of fame.”

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Author:Chris Pine

“Sometimes it's frustrating if I'm out with the kids and have to deal with the paparazzi. That comes with it though. But it was fun becoming famous. I mean, I even wanted to one of the kids in FAME when I was growing up.”

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Author:Victoria Beckham

“I think anybody who's famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who's looking out into the world of celebrity obsession.”

Thinking World Way Kids Film Deals Fame Obsession

Author:Adrian Grenier

“Time helps a lot. I found the fame thing really was a torment for a while. Then you learn to deal with it.”

Helping Found Deals Fame Torment

Author:Mel Gibson

“I never heard so many kids talk about just doing anything to be famous. I mean, yeah, fame is part of the deal when you're a kid and you think, I wanna go into music, but everybody that I knew was really doing it because of their love for it. I don't see so much of that anymore.”

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Author:David Bowie

“We are inducting Connor "The Crusher" Michalek into the WWE Hall of Fame with the Warrior Award, and it's going to be really hard with the waves of emotion that will set in. I will have to share with everyone what he meant to me and also deal with how sad his story is. He was so inspiring to people, it is going to be really emotional for me. It should be very special!”

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Author:Daniel Bryan

“I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.”

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Author:Barbara Kruger

“Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.”

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Author:Laura Linney

“It's just nice to work hard and be rewarded, which is having lots of people watch. And the icing on the cake is for me is to be able to walk around with pride, feeling that the product you put out is worthy of being watched. But honestly, it's not a big deal. I don't put too much stock in fame or celebrity anyway. I don't put it in the 'important' box.”

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Author:Christopher Meloni

“I've spent a lot of time in tiny venues in the way that I got my record deal and got my name out there just performing live. I was literally performing my songs in all kinds of different ways with different guitarists, and I didn't have an album up online or anything. It's been a lot of work; it definitely hasn't been a sudden explosion into fame.”

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Author:Florence Welch

“But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.”

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Author:Thomas Browne

“Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.”

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Author:David Duchovny