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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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I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher. – Moses Mendelssohn

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I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage. – Bill Nighy

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There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous – and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone. – Tom Wolfe

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I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when Im dead. – Laura Kightlinger

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In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then. – Arthur Bremer

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Formal education will make you a living self-education will make you a fortune. – Jim Rohn

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Youve got certain guys that just want to be famous and then youve got the real musicians that just love playing music. – Zakk Wylde

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Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You cant do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen. – Keith Richards

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