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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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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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I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person. – Donna Leon

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Its horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if youre not famous or rich, youre not acceptable. – Bruno Tonioli

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