“When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.”
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Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.
People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.
I think that once you open the door and allow people in on a certain aspect, it's very hard to then control how far that ripple effect is. So I think that the person who is known or famous has the ability to decide what they do or don't want to share.
Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.