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...here is no value to fortune or fame unless it can be used to help others. Celebrity is nothing more than being known by those who do not know you. I...

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...uced – even if a more scrupulous biographer had set down his words accurately – and we are perhaps already aware of him as Wilde the self-destructive celebrity who uneasily fills the place of the premier gay icon and martyr in our contemporary view. Neither of these images will do. We need to read as many accounts as possible. Harris, though himself a self-advertising lite...

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...ust wanted to be on television: for, odly enough, Theo had become a minor celebrity. Letters and f owers poured in every day from people who had rea... ...e internet and a few mo- ments later a search page displayed: The Sleeping Celebrity Awakes The mysterious case of the nine-year-old boy lying in a co... ...isten, you conceited little brat,’ he snarled. ‘Maybe all the cameras and celebrity status have gone to your ugly little head. This is my hospital a... ...dio said with a faint crackle. ‘The mysterious saga of Theo, the Sleeping Celebrity of St Jude’s Hospital, took a dramatic turn today. An Italian wo... ...or Children in London. Theo, known throughout the country as the Sleeping Celebrity, has since been sighted in Paris, Cairo, Jerusalem and now repor... ...pped. ‘Thanks to the intensive campaigns of the media, Theo has be- come a celebrity in much of the western world. He is also a rallying point of pub... ...s Camilla Davis and today I’m in the famous ward where Theo, the Sleeping Celebrity of St Jude’s, f rst awoke. With me here in the ward is Dr Benson... ...ntrol over his shoulder. He’d been robbed again of his chance to become a celebrity. He’d make that brat pay if it was the last thing he ever did. ... ...or so long.’ She paused to allow a burst of applause. ‘Theo, the Sleeping Celebrity and Child Fugitive, is back with us, and tonight we will present...

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...ctivity. It makes no sense to us to pay millions of dollars and to accord celebrity status to people playing ball games or actors who are only preten... ...ing, but expresses it as though it comes from God, because of the actor‟s celebrity; the businessman who bribes or cheats; the politician who uses t... ...s, acting, singing and dancing are encouraged but not paid. They carry no celebrity. As Juvenal observed, as the citizens of the empire abdicated the...

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...upply aplenty. Narcissistic Supply – attention, adulation, admiration, applause, fame, celebrity, notoriety – neuter the sting of my self-directed j... ...r "When unable to secure 'normal' Narcissistic Supply – adulation, recognition, fame, celebrity, notoriety, infamy, affirmation, or mere attention...

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...ical thinking in engineering. I answered that if the logics come from the celebrity, how can one escape or surpass the constraints of the celebrity? ...

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...issistic Supply from him and thus to prevent him from becoming a notorious celebrity. Given a sufficient amount of media exposure, book contracts, ...

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...at some dinner and took her down, rather flattered at offering my arm to a celebrity. She didn’t look like one, with her matronly, mild, inanimate fac...

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...ith which he snared the wariest provincial had brought him such commercial celebrity that all vendors of the “ar- ticle Paris”* paid court to him, and...

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...rise this murderous disaster, which, as you may remember, had its gruesome celebrity. The wind would have prevented the loudest outcries from reaching...

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... Henry James value should not have been treated by his contemporaries as a celebrity. We manage things very differently to-day. The immediate successo... ...weak lungs; and this rather melancholy tradition, together with the former celebrity of the school of medi- cine still existing there, but from which ... ...t at a Shrewsbury or a Buffalo. It is true that the place enjoys a certain celebrity at home, which it amply deserves, moreover; for nothing could be ... ... rages and roars at its base—that I had no difficulty in understanding the celebrity of Vaucluse. I understood 174 A Little Tour in France it, but I ...

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...y when youth and beauty in some sort excuse the transgression. Any sort of celebrity bestows an inconceivable prestige. Apparently for women, as for f...

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...tent neutralizing literature. The most conspicuous result of George Sand’s celebrity was to elicit the fact that France has a per- fectly enormous num... ... fame as a substitute for her disappointed ambitions. Poetry and dreams of celebrity, which had lulled her grief since her meeting with Anna Grossetet... ... and by the cure was full of expedient. Every Wednesday he introduced some celebrity from Germany, England, Italy, or Prussia to his dear Count- ess; ...

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...; and as to your friend’s, I don’t see why his should, either. He wasn’t a celebrity himself, I suppose?” “No, no.” “Then the letters can be addressed...

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...that if placed in a proper situation to profit by them, I should ac- quire celebrity, and presently become a modern Orpheus, whose mystic sounds would... ...n of effecting a revolution in the art, and by that means of ac- quiring a celebrity which, in the fine arts, is in Paris mostly accompanied by fortun... ...ry middling success, al- though the Abbe des Fontaines promised to give it celebrity, and, notwithstanding the other journalists, had spoken of it ver... ...ife I had determined to pursue; and was of opinion, that a copyist of some celebrity in the republic of letters was not likely to want employment. The... ... du Roi, Coin de la Reine,—[King’s corner,—Queen’s corner.]— then in great celebrity. The dispute, as it became more animated, produced several pamphl... ...; the first has been shown about in the world; the second has not the same celebrity: friendship proceeds with less noise. Amongst the connections I m... ... of his sentiments with respect to me changed af- ter I acquired a greater celebrity than he already had. But the first time I discovered his insincer...

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... natural enough that a shake of the box should have tossed Nat Fulmer into celebrity, and sent Violet Melrose chasing back from the ends of the earth ... ... the little air-tight salon. While she poured out the tale of Nat’s sudden celebrity, and its unexpected consequences, Susy marvelled and dreamed. Was...

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... these words. My relations with the Marchioness of Dudley had a disastrous celebrity. At an age when the senses have dominion over our 163 Balzac con... ... love surprised her. She felt so strong a necessity for excitement, noise, celebrity, that nothing attained to her ideal in this respect; hence her vi...

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...escape bore witness to a courage, intelligence, and coolness which won him celebrity without his knowl- edge, and that transient fame of which Paris s...

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... ‘but I like her a thousand times better than some conceited sec- ond-rate celebrity who would grimace and attitudinise all the while for effect. This...

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...ntrate in my love every idea, every power that is in me. The most splendid celebrity is a possession that genius alone can create. Well, I can, at my ...