As a result, process gurus are resigned to playing in the shadows, leaving fame, if not fortune, to others.
Besides, for all the talk about the hollowness of celebrity, I Like It When You Sleep … does not sound much like the work of people in any great hurry to leave fame behind.
And because fame is so unpredictable and something that one can't control, I think there is a fear, and because so much of your livelihood can depend on it, I do think that for some people talking about fame or leaving fame or being around people for whom fame has faded, is uncomfortable.
The reality, obviously, was quite different, but even brutes such as Edward Teach (Blackbeard) enjoyed popular fame and left behind them a fame that grew ever more unlikely with the passage of time.
Watters could take or leave the fame.
So why didn't he leave, seek fame and fortune in London like Peter?
Mr. Schwimmer will be seen next in "Hotel," a low-budget independent film directed by Mike Figgis (of "Leaving Las Vegas" fame) in Venice, Italy.
In one of his few existing manuscript letters, Vespucci tells of his decision to write an account of his most recent voyage so he can leave "some fame behind me after I die".
He recorded the interesting new molecule in his notebooks, the colleagues said, then moved on, leaving the fame of its discovery to scientists at DuPont, who announced it in 1938.
Naseem Khan writes: Dom Moraes's return to India in 1968 - leaving behind fame in England, as well as a wife and son - marked the beginning of a long, slow and painful rapprochement with both his country of origin and himself.
