"My personality doesn't work without fame, " says Brand in a flash of self-awareness, before launching into an anecdote about meeting Britney Spears and an elephant.
She didn't go looking for fame, but one viral blog post later, fame found her.
Sport and features editor of The Voice, Rodney Hinds, explained that the list wasn't a measure of fame or to acknowledge playing milestones - but about influence.
But the irony in all of this, according to Brim, is that fame doesn't provide the sense of belonging that its seekers long for.
That means the proportion of people whose primary life motivation is fame isn't getting larger over time, even though opportunities for people to try for their 15 minutes have exploded through the Internet and reality TV shows, Brim said.
Get a pair of sunglasses if you can't stand the bright glare of fame.
That doesn't mean the performers aren't hoping for their shot at fame.
You don't get in this for the fame.
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But I've been around others who were so into their fame they couldn't see anyone outside their protective cocoon not as long as they had fans coming up to them, because then they knew they still existed.
Granted, this surely wouldn't affect Jones's Hall of Fame chances, which seem secure.
But the fact is Pete Rose is in the Hall of Fame because he wasn't honest, he was a cheater.
But if you were hoping that humankind was going to go in the direction of Mr Spock of Star Trek fame, it didn't happen and that is because humans essentially are not as a group willing to accept realities all the time.
You could blame the financial crisis or the election for drowning out her 15 minutes of fame, except Torres isn't alone.
We all love baseball, but passing Hall of Fame coins, that can't be the highest priority that the House of Representatives has.
What The Corrections has brought you that your previous two novels didn't, sadly, bring you, was fame and a good deal of fortune.
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Doesn't make any difference about their wealth and fame and notoriety.
In 2009, he moved to change the rules of Indiana's Athletics Hall of Fame so that honorees didn't have to attend the ceremony to be inducted.
Longtime Sports Illustrated baseball writer Tom Verducci said it wouldn't matter if a player was a Hall of Fame caliber player before baseball had its steroid use problems.
Jackson's own vocal performances were mainly scattered over singles, although some have been collected into albums, including a 2011 reissue of his FAME recordings, "Don't Count Me Out, " which won critical acclaim.
Robertson's box fiasco may seem like an unlikely way for a pro athlete to suffer a serious injury, but it doesn't come close to qualifying for the Hall of Fame of odd sports injuries.
"I don't think they should remove him (from the Hall of Fame), " said Tierra Brisco, a 21-year-old Penn State senior.
It may be the Note line's claim to fame (and existence), but we can't shake the feeling that the S Pen is now just a relic, a built-in accessory necessary to distinguish the very first Note as a new category.
"Fame has been the one thing that I probably haven't enjoyed that much, " he said.
But Seinfeld's income doesn't come from past work alone--he's parlayed his fame into packed houses across the U.S., revisiting his stand-up roots for big money.
The 40-year-old point guard, surely headed for the Hall of Fame, is 3 of 25 in the postseason and hasn't scored since hitting a 3-pointer against the Celtics in Game 2 on April 23.
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