Sentence examples for escape fame from inspiring English sources

In fact, it was at least partly to escape fame that Sedaris fled America for Europe several years ago.

Acts such as Hans Teeuwen, from the Netherlands, and Sweden's Magnus Betnér are superstars back home, now seeking to escape fame and hone their skills in a more competitive environment.

Having escaped fame on others' terms more than once, he seems singularly well placed to bend the mainstream to his frail, lewd, egomaniacal and tender visions.

But as everyone converts, Ben tries to escape his fame and is excommunicated.

" Even back in his old neighbourhood, Garvey found no escape from fame.

A familiar face appeared: Paul Dano, who co-stars in "Youth" as an actor trying to escape blockbuster fame by studying the role of Hitler.

Bailey's decision to live in Piccadilly and not in a trendy area like Notting Hill reflects a desire to remain in touch with both Burberry's heritage and its new global consumer — his morning route to work leads him through tourist-rich old London — and to escape monumentalizing fame.

Though Kelis uses the album to reflect on her turbulent past few years – "I became a runner, to escape the fame," she laments on Runner; "Is it a curse or is it my art?" she asks on Dreamer – ultimately Food feels optimistic.

In an effort to escape the fame or, as he sometimes saw it, his notoriety he enlisted in the RAF as aircraftsman John Hume Ross.

Sometimes it feels as if Saturday night TV's relentless insistence that jobs are something to be escaped – with fame the only alternative – almost borders on a bizarre form of propaganda.

Mitchell's exquisitely painful – and never bettered – songs about relationships ending are to be found elsewhere on the album, of course; this song is about her time in a hippy commune in Crete in the late 60s, a place she had found when, in her own escape from the fame and success of her first three albums, she set off around Europe.