"There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity."

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Source : "'I've been a minor celebrity since I was 23 years old'". Interview with Jessica Hodgson, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2002.

Tony Wilson

#Powerful Quotes #Homegrown Quotes

“Onstage, you just have to tell the absolute truth about the character you are playing. You hope you communicate it, and you hope it comes back like a tennis ball. If you're listening to the sound of your own voice, nobody else is. The audience knows, and they freeze on you.”
“The weaker sex, to piety more prone.”

Source : William Alexander, “Doomes-Day: The Fifth Houre”
“He realized that if he didn't leave, it would never be his life. It would be theirs.”
“Being a photographer is making people look at what I want them to look at.”
“Being nuts is its own reward.”

Source : Roseanne, Roseanne Barr (1989). “Roseanne: my life as a woman”, Harpercollins
“The television commercial is not at all about the character of products to be consumed. It is about the character of the consumers of products. (128)”
“With all the catastrophes that are going on, and all the hardships that are going on around the world, you don't do the world any service by walking around in pain and at war with yourself. You'd do a lot better good, a lot better service, if you find that thing within yourself that says ...move forward it's okay. It's are duty to see through it and work through it.”
“When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.”

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