"I've been very successful at avoiding fame and fortune!
The great author J.D. Salinger spent his life avoiding fame.
Of all the MTV docusoaps, it's actually done the worst job of pretending its stars are still average folks, shepherding them to new locales (Miami and Florence, Italy) both to avoid hometown fame and to take advantage of notoriety.
"I said, 'What were you thinking, Kevin?' " Mr. Johnson also had a tip for Tug Coker, the lanky actor who plays Mr. Bird, a taciturn man known for looking for side doors to avoid the fame that Mr. Johnson long invited and seemed to need.
And there's no point in trying to avoid the fame culture.
Avoid chasing fame or money.
His Pop classics, even with the inevitable patina of time and fame, still avoid the cuddlier aspect of nostalgia.
They both currently still live with their parents (Robinson's have tagged along for tonight's show along with his three younger brothers), and each avoid the excesses of fame.
His relative newness on the political scene, he admits, will also cause him to be seen as a "blank screen" on which a variety of people will project their own views, but he then quickly acknowledges that he must "avoid the pitfalls of fame".
No one doubts Kennedy is a surprisingly affable, charming man who has to date coped admirably with his fame, avoiding many of his cousins' pitfalls.
