"At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous."

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Source : Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”

Phil Donahue

#Firsts Quotes #Fame Quotes

“I think humor and terror are very closely related.”
“I have a problem with a lot of men's fragrances because they are very strong. Somebody somewhere thinks that masculine means powerful smells, and I find them overbearing and not very pleasant.”
“I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves.”
“The hypothesis is pretty; its only fault is that it is neither demonstrated nor demonstrable. Who does not see that this is purely arbitrary fiction that puts nothingness as existing and proposes nothing more than simple noncontradiciton?”
“Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.”
“American literature was enriched with Men Who Loved Allison .... Of the actual and eventual worth of this romance I cannot pretend to be an unprejudiced judge. The tale seems to me one of those many books which have profited, very dubiously indeed, by having obtained, in one way of another, the repute of being indecent.”
“Sometimes it is better to begin the journey, to get under way, then it is to sit back and wait until such time that you're convinced that all conditions are perfect and that there'll be no surprises along the route.”
“My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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