
Paul Flanner's father, Chapter 3, p. 24
2000s, Nights in Rodanthe (2002)
Song lyrics, The Kick Inside (1978)
Paul Flanner's father, Chapter 3, p. 24
2000s, Nights in Rodanthe (2002)
“So you're gonna end this by dying, huh? Stop running away!”
Song lyrics, 50 Words for Snow (2011)
“Can't be part of the rat race when you're one of the rats who knows you're in a cage.”
Comment on fame, quoted in Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress (1993) by Carl E. Rollyson, and in Symbolic Leaders: Public Dramas and Public Men (2006) by Orrin Edgar Klapp
Variant: People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you, of any kind of nature — and it won't hurt your feelings — like it's happening to your clothing.
As quoted in Ms. magazine (August 1972) p. 40
Context: When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does. People you run into feel that, well, who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe? They feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you, of any kind of nature — and it won't hurt your feelings — like it's happening to your clothes not you.