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“I absolutely refuse the fame part of my business. I refuse even the money side of my business. I try to do as good work as I can do, I try to grow in my art and reach for truth. That's what I want from my art, that's what I aspire to.”

Want Trying Art I Can Grows Sides Can Do Fame Refuse Good Work Aspire

Author:Connie Nielsen

“Insignificant, is the loss of relatives, wealth and fame; The loss of wisdom is the greatest loss. Insignificant, is the increase of relatives, wealth and fame; The increase of wisdom is the highest gain. Therefore, you should train yourselves thus: "We will grow in the increase of wisdom" Thus you should train yourselves.”

Should Wisdom Grows Wealth Loss Fame Highest Gains Increase Train Insignificant

Author:Gautama Buddha

“The fame of a battlefield grows with its years; Napoleon storming the Bridge of Lodi, and Wellington surveying the towers of Salamanca, affect us with fainter emotions than Brutus reading in his tent at Philippi, or Richard bearing down with the English chivalry upon the white armies of Saladin.”

Years Reading Grows White Emotion Battle Fame Army Bridges Towers Battlefields Tents Chivalry Wellington Brutus Saladin

Book:Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

Source: Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

“I don't want fame. I want to grow as an actor and a person while having my family and my life.”

Want Persons Actors Grows Fame My Family

Author:Leighton Meester

“As soon as an opinion becomes common it is sufficient reason for men to abandon it and to uphold the opposite opinion until that in its turn grows old, and they require to distinguish themselves by other things. Thus if they attain their goal in some art or science, we must expect them soon to cast it aside to acquire some fresh fame, and this is partly the reason why the most splendid ages degenerate so quickly, and, scarcely emerged from barbarism, plunge into it again.”

Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

“A mans fame and hayre grow most after death, and are both equally uselesse.”

Grows Fame After Death

Author:Theresa Villiers

“Once you grow accustomed to being famous, you do not realize it, but you are never quite your humble, honest self. No matter how tightly you keep the lid on, there is some watered stock of vanity inside. You are always in danger of the thing's coming off and of giving yourself an air or two. No man or woman was ever so distinguished that this exhibition did not make him ridiculous, especially to those of meaner minds.”

Men Giving Mind Two Self Matter Grows Realizing Air Honest Danger Fame Humble Ridiculous Vanity Accustomed Never Quit Distinguished Exhibitions Being Famous Giving Yourself

Author:Corra May Harris

“With fame, in just proportion, envy grows.”

Grows Fame Envy Proportion

Book:The complete works, poetry and prose, of ... Edward Young. Revised [by J. Nichols]. To which is prefixed, a life of the author, by J. Doran

Source: The complete works, poetry and prose, of ... Edward Young. Revised [by J. Nichols]. To which is prefixed, a life of the author, by J. Doran

“But 'why then publish?' There are no rewards Of fame or profit when the world grows weary. I ask in turn why do you play at cards? Why drink? Why read? To make some hour less dreary. It occupies me to turn back regards On what I've seen or pondered, sad or cheery, And what I write I cast upon the stream To swim or sink. I have had at least my dream.”

World Writing Play Dream Turns Asks Grows Hours Drink Fame Regard Rewards Casts Profit Cards Streams Swim Weary Publish Dreary

Book:DON JUAN

Source: DON JUAN

“Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.”

Grows Fame Plant Mortals Soil

Author:John Milton

“When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information theory, what do you do for an encore? The great scientists often make this error. They fail to continue to plant the little acorns from which the mighty oak trees grow. They try to get the big thing right off. And that isn't the way things go. So that is another reason why you find that when you get early recognition it seems to sterilize you.”

“This is crazier and louder than I was prepared for. With every week, the fervour and anticipation seem to grow. People know my name and ambush me in public and try to figure out what hotel I'm staying at and ask me to bite them and want to touch my hair.”

People Knows Want Trying Seems Asks Names Grows Week Figures Hair Fame Prepared Ask Me Hotel Staying Bites Anticipation Ambush

Author:Robert Pattinson