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I won’t be happy till I’m as famous as God.

—Madonna, c. 1985

He who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.

—E. R. Dodds, 1951

Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth. Suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.

—Julie Burchill, 1986

Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.

—Sarah Bernhardt, 1904

Reality is always the foe of famous names.

—Petrarch, 1337

We all have a contract with the public—in us they see themselves, or what they would like to be.

—Clark Gable, 1935
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