Sentence examples for pursued fame from inspiring English sources

Yet, he has methodically pursued fame as a way to build his garden empire.

Feiffer pursued fame with the relentlessness of Lady Gaga, but he was more interested in the creative freedom that would flow from it than in having dinner with Marlene Dietrich or hanging out with Jack Nicholson, although he did those things, too.

He doesn't want to pursue fame and the things that are fleeting".

It was after completing a second season of the show that Amstell began to feel the urge to leave England and pursue fame in America.

Chico and Rita, both Cubans of African descent, must deal with discrimination and exploitation as they pursue fame, fortune and artistic fulfillment.

Shaquille O'Neal received his bachelor's degree from Louisiana State University today, eight years after he left early to pursue fame and fortune in professional basketball, movies and rap music.

Ferguson writes that Beckham had his head turned by celebrity; that he made the conscious decision to pursue fame away from the field.

Would Norman Rockwell have been as happy, or successful, if he had painted only to please himself instead of pursuing fame and fortune as an illustrator?

Thanks to the Internet, women who prefer never, ever to leave the house to enter the unpredictable world of vice presidents and printer hubs get to pursue fame and fortune as greedily as anyone.

"Coda" is a meditation on whatever it is we seek when we pursue fame, or even immortality, and what we seek to achieve by being seen, by being recognized.

"The Sound of No Hands Clapping" finds him once again madly pursuing fame and riches, worshiping the same false celebrity gods, and in general making an absolute fool of himself.