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A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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If you want to be a rock star or just be famous then run down the street naked you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood then play play play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.

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It's funny to be discovered by a lot of people who didn't know you before. People always used to say 'Do you shop at Home Depot?' or 'Does your kid go to such and such school?' They want to know why they know me even if they don't know my name. I don't think that's a bad thing by the way I think it's nice to be kind of anonymously famous.

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I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer.

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When you reach a certain status in Hollywood you have to play a lot of games to stay in the limelight. It becomes more about being famous than being an actor.

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I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star – I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.

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Category: Famous

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'
  • 2. Women lie about their age men lie about their income.
  • 3. As you age naturally your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that you deny your heritage.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I feel like I have had the most amazing life in my public service.
  • 2. I liked the way they treated the first second and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline.
  • 3. I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.
  • 2. Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.
  • 3. You can survive with anger but you can't live with it forever.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly.
  • 2. Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
  • 3. We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell – but then I can never bring myself to sell them.
  • 2. The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.
  • 3. All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes or fails to come in the first conception and revision only affects the detail and ornament alas!
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