“Fame itself … doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.”
– David Bowie

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“I’m shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I’ve done everything I can to avoid it.”
Johnny Depp

“If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre

“There’s no difference between fame and infamy now. There’s a new school of professional famous people that don’t do anything. They don’t create anything.”
– Ricky Gervais

“Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.”
– Marilyn Monroe

“The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.”
– Eminem

“If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“I think I understand what military fame is – to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.”
– William Tecumseh Sherman

“Fame was thrilling only until it became gruelling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.”
– Gloria Swanson

“What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.”
– Lord Byron

“A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.”
– Clive James

“Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.”
– Dante Alighieri

Thoughts on fame

Mozart delights in Oborne church

OPERA in Oborne returned with sell-out performances of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro in St Cuthbert’s Church in the picturesque little village near Sherborne.

There were enthusiastic audiences for the Mozart on the Friday and Saturday, with a cast of young professional singers from Latvia, the US, France and the UK. On the Sunday the singers delighted the full church with a programme of popular arias and show songs.

There was a warm welcome for Susanna Stranders, head of music at Garsington Opera who was the accompanist and musical director for the weekend.

Opera at Oborne, with its picturesque setting and the nearby country house hotel, The Grange, offering great food and comfortable accommodation, is quickly becoming a must-see in the local musical calendar. All three nights sold out and raised a considerable sum for the church.

Sir Robert Corbett, founder of Opera in Oborne, said: “I find it hard to believe that Opera in Oborne is now in its fifth year. Our brilliant performers seem to us in the village to be more like family than the international stars they are. We love having them here with us and so, to judge by their reaction, do our audiences who fill Saint Cuthbert’s to bursting! Long may it last.”

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