#anon

For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it. ↗

— Michelle Pfeiffer

#being #being famous #comfortable #control #famous

I never felt totally, 100%, patriotically English... I'd seen a lot of the world by an early age - sort of spent a lot of time traveling around Lebanon and I'd seen Babylon, and Damascus, and all sorts of places in the Middle East by the time I was ten. Then we'd return to Ruslip in West London... Done a fair bit of traveling really. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#around #babylon #bit #by the time #done

But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#am #anonymity #i #important #me

Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#dean #done #heads #lay #their

No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#deal #disciplined #famous #how #loss

I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#anonymity #appreciative #come #course #i

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#complete #only #telling #truth #two

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#being #being happy #benefits #duty #happy

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#bach #been #born #composing #due

We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens. ↗

— Rafik Hariri

#accountable #agreement #anything #basis #because