Quotes About Recognition

I thought you'd have known that, you being a TV writer.

If this is what you do to the winner, I'd hate to see how you treat the runner up.

Grammy nominations are certainly pleasant, but you can forget about them and lead a perfectly happy life - provided you have the approval of the musicians you work with.

As breadwinners, providers, mentors, counselors, parents, grandmothers, teachers, doctors, nurses, and more, Black women and their invaluable contributions to Georgia and our country must be compensated.

I do feel at times like I'm always proving myself. But I also feel that I'm proven. I've proven I can get to the mountaintop.

I have spent most of my adult life proving that I existed. A blog is an accessible way of doing this - there is a date and place in cyberspace that I existed a year ago, to the day, and the proof is still there.

I still need to go through the process of proving myself.

Because of my pseudonym Gulzar, which is how I am known, some people think I am a Muslim.

And the reason I really appreciated this is because after the picture came out, I was invited by the American Psychiatric Association to give a lecture. I couldn't believe it!

Psychologists and psychiatrists send me cards and say, 'Hey, I love your books.'

In my hometown there is a pub named after me - The Frome Flyer on Jenson Avenue. How cool is that?!

People know me but can't quite place me - they squint at me like I might be their old school teacher or a woman they've seen down the local pub.

Every musician liked Peggy Lee, but not the general public.

I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.

I have a CBE, and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family; it's not bestowed on you by the government; you have to be nominated by the public.

The public has become my fairy godmother.

I can be among the general public and next to me is a big picture of my face, but no one notices apart from my friends.

I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye.

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.

There was definitely a time where I really didn't want to be in the public eye, or have people know who I was and then they knew what my last name was, and you know, I've battled with that a little bit.

My experience of being on the public platform got more multi-faceted, multi-dimensional, and my place in the public eye, I think, has always been a little more than just what is going on in that time in my life.

You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.

Look, at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I'd be a baby and a fool to be like, 'Why are there cameras taking pictures of me?' when I'm on a billboard for a movie. I think that's a very absurd concept.

Once you're put out there in the public eye, people feel a certain ownership over you.