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My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for

My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances weve become the most famous bad orchestra in the world. – Alexander McCall Smith

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I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: try being rich first. See if that doesnt cover most of it. Theres not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job. – Bill Murray

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Ive never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986. – Wendy Cope

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I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning. – Mira Sorvino

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