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Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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. Second to agriculture humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
  • 2. Age is only a number a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
  • 3. Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Changing my body has given me the ability to do all these amazing things that I never in a million years imagined I could do.
  • 2. Wasim and Waqar were amazing bowlers. I would put them right up there with the best in the world.
  • 3. When I'm doing a film I love getting together after work with my costars. But we get back to L.A. and I'm like 'I don't want to go to a club with you dude. I mean I think you're rad and if you want to come play Scrabble with me that's amazing.'

3 Anger

  • 1. Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.
  • 2. Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
  • 3. I use the music to vent and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety stress and depression so that's how the album came out so dark.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. We can't forget what happened on May 4th 1970 when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.
  • 2. The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly.
  • 3. Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was you could have asked the local florist – because every day Dad gave Mom a rose which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died – she went looking for him because that morning there was no rose.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Architecture tends to consume everything else it has become one's entire life.
  • 2. I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.
  • 3. You might say that when you step inside you're entering a honorific space but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us.
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