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

—Clark Gable, 1935

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

—Martin Luther, c. 1530

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

—Oscar Wilde, 1891

I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

—Aldous Huxley, 1925

When I do a show, the whole show revolves around me, and if I don’t show up, they can just forget it.

—Ethel Merman, c. 1955

Fame is but the empty noise of madmen.

—Epictetus, c. 100
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