There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity.


Tony Wilson

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I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible.
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My celebrity has held steady since the day I began acting. I don't view it as celebrity. I'm...
ADAM GOLDBERG
To whatever degree you have as a celebrity or notoriety, there are people who see you as an opinion ...
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This season is all about celebrity fragrances and celebrity endorsements.
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As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if you...
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Celebrity is death --- celebrity -- that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.
JOHN CUSACK
Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.
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Consumers want to see news and be a part of celebrity happenings as soon as video is available.
CYRIAC ROEDING
Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.
KEVIN COSTNER
This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS
Buy tabloids. Celebrity gossip is engrossing. Celebrity cellulite can make you forget turbulence.
JULIA CAMERON
But I've always felt a need to have a life which is completely separate - at least as far as pos...
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Many business owners dream of having their product or service endorsed by a global celebrity. But in...
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I had an epiphany a few years ago when I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me t...
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Celebrity is intoxicating.
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The fact is that celebrity-branded apparel requires the support of the celebrity. She will vigorousl...
JACK GORDON
I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
Q'ORIANKA KILCHER
Meeting a vampire is kind of like a celebrity sighting, but where the celebrity possibly wants to ki...
ADRIANNE AMBROSE
The most powerful weapon in the world, as far as I'm concerned, is the camera.
PAUL WATSON
The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his image or trademark. The hero cre...
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Celebrity.
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There are fortunes being made by turning fans into victims and all it starts by creating that frenzy...
ABBY ARONOWITZ
[Being a celebrity] doesn't even seem to keep the fleas off our dogs -- and if being a celebrity won...
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I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in i...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN
Sometimes you don’t get a second chance. You need to take a chance when you have the opportunity. ...
GAVIN MACLEOD
Celebrity nowadays is so fleeting.
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I think our culture has gotten so skewed. People assume that because you're an actor you want to...
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When I did 'Esquire,' I did a lot of celebrity covers, but the celebrity cover was Hubert Hu...
GEORGE LOIS
I'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us.
HILARY DUFF
I get attention no matter where I walk, regardless being an actor or celebrity, because big as I am ...
LOU FERRIGNO
Celebrity despicability is a precious thing.
ROB SHEFFIELD
Being a celebrity is a business.
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It's especially concerning when a celebrity keeps wild animals as that promotes the whole concept of...
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When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to sp...
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Increasingly, the picture of our society as rendered in our media is illusionary and delusionary: di...
CARL BERNSTEIN
There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.
BRIAN KOSLOW
When you say you are a gamer and you are a celebrity or a former celebrity there's a grain of sa...
CURT SCHILLING
Celebrity culture is something that pains me.
SUSIE ORBACH
We are saddened that relations deteriorated to the point where litigation became necessary. The fact...
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My goal is: I'm not trying to be snobby, but my clothes are not for everyone, not for every Holl...
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Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
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JAMES CARROLL
As valium induces one to sleep,so does a celebrity endorsed product induces consumers to buy a produ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.
EDMUND WHITE
Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.
JOHN UPDIKE
Celebrity damages private life.
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going after a celebrity.
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Coming eyeball to eyeball with a hummingbird on my terrace is as exciting to me as any celebrity I&#...
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Love is a powerful force. There is nothing in this world, no other energy, as powerful as the force ...
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I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news j...
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The star thing, the celebrity thing, is new to me.
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Unfortunately, celebrity is a powerful thing. It can influence people, but if it can influence peopl...
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After millions of years of evolution, we start stupid cults of celebrity and feed the egos of maniac...
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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
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The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it...
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A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working ...
STEVE MARTIN
I'm obsessively opposed to the typical.
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I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.
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Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.
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I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves ...
JOHNNY DEPP
Sometimes you have to be a bitch to get things done.
MADONNA
I can remember Doris Day before she was a virgin.
OSCAR LEVANT
When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.
MADONNA
The best smell in the world is that man that you love.
JENNIFER ANISTON
The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.
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The advertisement still has to be creative. Additionally, the consumer wants to see the celebrity 'o...
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Get your product out there and get immediate impact without having to pay for a celebrity endorsemen...
ADAM NELSON
If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you...
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Celebrity - I don't even know what that means. Obviously it's the same basic word as celebration, bu...
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I've been part of the Red Cross Celebrity Cabinet since 2002, which was in its inception or when it ...
TIM MCGRAW
When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
PARIS HILTON
That's hot!
PARIS HILTON
You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving li...
VICTORIA BECKHAM
I am beautiful, famous and gorgeous.
ANNA KOURNIKOVA
When I rep a celebrity, to me they're a brand, not just a person - and a brand has attributes and th...
HOWARD BRAGMAN
I absolutely realize that a celebrity spokesperson is not ideal.
JANEANE GAROFALO
celebrity marriages, they never last do they!
SHREK
A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.
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For years he was sort of written off as a mere celebrity portraitist, and I think that was encourage...
DOUGLAS FOGLE
We're adding a second site. It's going to be a celebrity version. It's the same idea, but it's more ...
ERICA SALMON
We got a really phenomenal, phenomenal deal. A comparable celebrity would have cost two to three tim...
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I haven't made it to be a celebrity dancer, but I am touching people's lives.
HALEEMA FORD
It was a whirlwind trip of exciting things. Brian was a celebrity and he was treated as a homecoming...
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... especially if you're a celebrity in this town.
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dooms celebrity marriages before they can really start.
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After Puberty Blues , I ran away. It was so daunting to go from overnight nonentity to major celebri...
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I don't consider myself a celebrity, and I don't consider myself a star.
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PETER CROOK
I'm so not a celebrity.
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He has been punished because of his celebrity status.
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If you can make your name and your works very famous and at the same time can succeed in making your...
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The superhighway of celebrity and showmanship is filled with debris.
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I watched my parents' fame diminish - as I was getting more conscious, their celebrity was going...
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I've said all along that God is in control.
TONY DUNGY
My favorite parable for living a positive and influential life is the Golden Rule: 'Do unto othe...
TONY OLLER
The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English ...
TONY HILLERMAN
Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.
TONY GILROY
What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true ...
TONY ROBBINS
Our kids have to understand that drinking underage is a poor decision that could drastically affect ...
TONY CARDENAS
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what t...
TONY ROBBINS
To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspir...
TONY DORSETT
I'm not cynical or bitter in any way. Life's too short; you get ripped off, but if you hold ...
TONY FERNANDES
My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me i...
TONY IOMMI
It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that ...
TONY BLAIR
Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them remove...
TONY PARSONS
The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have beco...
TONY CAMPOLO
I do like the nonpartisan atmosphere here at City Hall where you can talk with the person who oppose...
TONY CARDENAS
That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. Yo...
TONY CAMPOLO
In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Mini...
TONY BLAIR
My first winner was on Legal Steps, in Ireland, at Thurles, in March 1992. I rode for Jim Bolger, an...
TONY MCCOY
I don't know if it's embarrassing, but I have a lot of girl Christian music.
TONY OLLER
If people didn't know me and only knew my public persona, what I'd want them to know is ever...
TONY DUNGY
Cancer seems a high price to pay for an innocuous-looking habit. You get into smoking and you are ro...
TONY PARSONS
It would be suicide in the American academy to show too early an interest beyond your doctoral speci...
TONY JUDT
I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.
TONY ABBOTT