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Tag Name "Biographies" (302)

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I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.
Cilla Black
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In reading the biographies of very successful men and women, one theme frequently surfaces: such people have a strong bias for action. Those who achieve high levels of success in some areas of life tend to take a LOT more action than those who settle for average or below average results.
Steve Pavlina
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Dreadful is a poignant biography of a forgotten man who drank himself to death. It's a brilliant evocation of a self-hating gay novelist in the 1940s whom Gore Vidal once considered a rival.
Edmund White
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.
Oscar Wilde
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Inthehistorian'sview biography isa kindoffrogspawn it takes ten thousand biographies to make one small history.
Michael Holroyd
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I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.
A. Scott Berg
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Biographies by preachers are of no value. If they admire a man they always make him a saint, while if they dislike one, they always make him a demon.
George C. Lorimer
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Eleanor Marx was her father's first biographer. All subsequent biographies of Karl Marx, and most of Engels, draw on her work as their primary sources for the family history, often without knowing it. I think if she'd been a son, she would have been referenced more.
Rachel Holmes
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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.
Al Sharpton
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Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing moments that make up a personality.
Burton Silverman
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street life was trivial and commonplace. If you would know their tastes and complexions, the most admiring of their readers most resembles them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I did a lot before [being cast] because I knew how important it would be for playing somebody real, or attempting to - to show the team [the role] was something I would be fascinated to do. I read a couple of biographies and I watched everything I could find [about princess Margaret].
Vanessa Kirby
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If you read any of the biographies on J. Edgar Hoover, you find that they contradict each other more than they agree. Often times, they're often told from a political perspective.
Clint Eastwood
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According to Nietzche, said a sharp new voice, making them all jump, philosophy is the biography of the philosopher.
J. K. Rowling
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I am almost thanking God that I was never educated, for it seems to me that 999 of those who are so, expensively and laboriously, have lost all before they arrive at my age-& remain like Swift's Stulbruggs-cut and dry for life, making no use of their earlier-gained treasures:-whereas, I seem to be on the threshold of knowledge.
Edward Lear
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The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
George Steiner
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I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.
Wilbur Smith
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
Carlos Fuentes
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We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary.
Rachel Holmes
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A virtuoso performance. Scott Thompson’s biography of the soldier statesman Fidel V. Ramos illustrates the fascinating and complex geography of Filipino politics and its relation with the American hegemon. It’s first-rate scholarship and equally first-rate writing.
F. Sionil José
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Becoming Richard Pryor is a compulsively readable book that sets a new gold standard for American biography. Scott Scaul's research is extraordinary his writing is taut, elegant, and insightful and he captures both the hilarity and pain that made Richard Pryor such a towering figure.
Debby Applegate
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I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be
Edmund White
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Sometimes I read a biography of some tempestuous artist and find myself longing for fireworks! booze! bloody fights! I do think that life must be so much more thrilling when you're actively miserable.
Lauren Groff
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