“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

Priestley’s Corner at the Fireside

THE Verwood-based Fireside Theatre has chosen JB Priestley’s first play, the now-classic 1932 Dangerous Corner, for its October reading, on Wednesday 4th at the home of Margaret and Tony Wilson.

It’s the perfect play for the group, set at a social evening among friends. In the play, a chance remark opens up awkward questions, as one guest tries to find the truth about the death of a brother. The result is another death. The same scene is repeated, but this time the ‘dangerous corner’ is bypassed, as the chance remark is never made, and the second death is averted. This is the first example of the playwright’s speciality – playing with time to create a different outcome. How useful that might have been in the last few years …

If you would like to attend, telephone 01202 976532.

Fireside’s next plays include a group of one act plays grouped as Another Night at Seven, in November, and The Reluctant Debutante in December.

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Priestley’s Corner at the Fireside