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Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really ha

Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there. – Penn Jillette

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Im a hardcore libertarian – I want everything legal – but I also believe that you have the right to free association. – Penn Jillette

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But its much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But its more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen. – Penn Jillette

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Being rich and famous isnt all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me. – Annni-Frid Lyngstad

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Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. Its not really any very heady fame. – Peter Carey

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I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true. – Alanis Morissette

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Look at Gleason in The Honeymooners. He was humorous but the way he lived wasnt really humorous. He was a bus driver. Who wants to be a bus driver? He didnt have any money and he was not famous. But despite that, the show is humorous. – George Thorogood

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