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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstrac

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. – Susan Sontag

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Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life — its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness — conjoin to dull our sensory faculties. – Susan Sontag

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Excess
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Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. – Susan Sontag

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Failure
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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

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I dont have famous neighbours and if I did, Id avoid them. I dont live the jet-set. – Vanessa Paradis

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I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself. – Kristen Stewart

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I didnt know what to expect from a famous movie star maybe that hed be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much… that I had a hard time painting him. – Norman Rockwell

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famous

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