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“I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style, and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, I go to work and earn my living, my well-being and my fame.”

Men Needs Wells Enough My Own Worry Style Masters Genius Fame Models Guides Cease Well Being Copies Free Man

Author:Pietro Aretino

“Dont expect fame to come overnight. That filtered through to me in my own career. Look at Madonna: shes not the best singer in the world, but shes got where she has through hard work.”

World Looks Hard My Own Careers Hard Work Fame Singers

Author:Rick Astley

“I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame”

Desire Interest My Own Pleasure Fame Ambition Affair Envy Jealousy Engaged Avarice Public Affairs

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“Fame never interested me. I could have exhibited more of my own works in the 1970s, but I didn't want to. It's sort of like being a child. When you're finished with school, you have only one thing on your mind: to get out and experience life. Did I want to spend all my time working on a painting? No, I wanted to have fun, travel, meet women and live life.”

Want Mind Children Wanted School Fun My Own One Thing Painting Fame Finished Live Life Having Fun My Time

Author:Wolfgang Beltracchi

“My mom, my father, my little sisters, and my brother - I don't got that much family. I'm not really a family person. I just do my own thing. But I've just been spending time with my mom, especially since the [September motorcycle] accident happened. I drive all the way down there to Georgia just to check up on her. You just get tired of being that person that you thought you were. I don't feel no different. I see the music, because I made it. I don't really see the fame.”

“I don't feel like I have a super straightforward relationship with the idea of fame. It makes me sort of level things out in my own brain almost immediately when I meet someone.”

Feels Ideas My Own Levels Brain Fame Straightforward

Author:Zoe Kazan

“I told a story with the E Street Band that was bigger and better than I could have done on my own.”

Done Stories My Own Streets Fame Band Bigger Bigger And Better

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.”

Writing Children Parent My Own Sin Numbers Fool Fame Ink Lisp

Book:The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward

“Fame and stuff like that is all very cool, but at the end of the day, we're all human beings. Although what I do is incredibly surreal and fun and amazing and I'm really grateful for it, I don't believe my own press release, do you know what I mean?”

Knows Believe Humans Mean Ends Fun Stuff My Own Human Beings Fame Grateful Presses Don't Believe Release The End Of The Day Do You Know Surreal Very Cool Press Release

Author:Tom Hardy