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Quote by Alan Bennett
Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their me

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

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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. – Alan Bennett

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Usually when I see someone famous, for some reason, I think I know them. – Leona Lewis

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That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing. – Suzanne Farrell

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I kept saying that Id never live in L.A., and I didnt think I would. But thats where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when youre famous, its hard to live in a small town. – John Cusack

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In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known – that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness. – Norman O. Brown

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