And he appears to believe that he will get it, as he got everything — by sheer will — and with it a return to fame and wealth and adulation.
This year has seen the company in the spotlight, first with its Aston Martin DB5 seeing a return to fame with Daniel Craig in Skyfall and then with the announcement that the Midlands firm had agreed a £150m investment from Investindustrial, hopefully making the long-term future of the firm more secure.
With a hit album behind her and a judging gig on one of fall's hottest shows, "The X Factor," it's safe to say that Demi is at the height of her return to fame.
As a young man I had, after reading Flaubert's letters and the life stories of those writers I most admired, embraced the ethic of literary modernism that no serious writer can escape: to dedicate myself to art without expecting anything in return, to shun fame, success, and cheaply won popularity, to love literature for its own beauty.
I dearly hope that Italians don't fall for that demagogue again as he engineers his return to political fame under the guise of Euro-skepticism.
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Then came the return to the UK, and flash fame.
On the heels of Linda Lingle's big gubernatorial win in Hawaii comes news that Ms. Duke, she of the eponymous 1960's sitcom and "Helen Keller" fame, will return to the stage next month as Aunt Eller in "Oklahoma!" She succeeds Andrea Martin, who is leaving to join a new CBS sitcom based on the film "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," in which Ms. Martin appeared as Aunt Voula.
For these services to celebrity, Van Dyck has been rewarded with a return to the headlines in our own fame-obsessed age.
It's to be hoped that the Poliakoff effect is more positive for her than it was for Danny Lee Wynter, acclaimed co-star of Gemma in Capturing Mary, who recently wrote in The Stage about the fickleness of fame and his return to work as a waiter.
Foiling at least some of this devious rival's maneuvers, Belzoni eventually succeeded in amassing a significant haul, but he fell out with his employer and, despite a flurry of fame on his return to Europe to mount an exhibition of Egyptian wonders, he was soon wrangling with everyone from the British Museum to his long-suffering wife.
