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Wednesday, 3 December 2008
Daily Quote:
"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests" (Vidal, Gore - Language)

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Browse Quotations about Stardom

Being at the center of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence -- the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.
Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man -- and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is bad.
God makes stars. I just produce them.
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
I am big. It's the pictures that got small.
It's nice to be a part of history but people should get it right. I may not be perfect, but I'm bloody close.
Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.
No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.
The stars are the apexes of what triangles!
There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things.
You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.

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