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Biography Quotes

What’s bad about my biography? My father was a worker, my brothers, too, and I have always honestly served my country Picture Quote #1

One can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction Picture Quote #1

A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many thousand Picture Quote #1

Occasionally a single anecdote opens a character; biography has its comparative anatomy, and a saying or a sentiment enables the skilful hand to construct the skeleton Picture Quote #1

His biography is written in blood and tears; uncounted millions arise and call him blessed! A redeemed and reunited republic is his monument Picture Quote #1

Mills insisted that a sociologist’s proper subject was the intersection of biography and history Picture Quote #1

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Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history Picture Quote #1

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn’t be. He is too many people if he’s any good Picture Quote #1

The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its promise Picture Quote #1

Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended up hating them Picture Quote #1

I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our live Picture Quote #1

I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era Picture Quote #1

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Your biography becomes your biology. This biography includes the totality of your choices, the things you feed your body - you thoughts, your actions, your food - the thing you feed your life Picture Quote #1

It’s great fun to memorize somebody’s biography, and then liberally play with the real facts of their life and go a step beyond reality Picture Quote #1

I’m writing my biography. It’s my business. This is what happened in my life, and I’m writing about it Picture Quote #1

I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn’t tell it like it was Picture Quote #1

Elizabeth Rothra’s excellent biography of Charles Torrey Simpson restates his philosophies about the intrinsic value of natural ecosystems like the Everglades. No one knew better than he the history of the plants and animals of South Florida or conveyed it with more humor and enthusiasm Picture Quote #1

Bob Hope was an entertainment colossus, shrewd and influential well beyond show business. Richard Zoglin’s biography captures it all--the public and private Hope Picture Quote #1

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One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond external facts and gives the inmost motives. One of the most mendacious is autobiography Picture Quote #1

I’ve never gone through the paces that writing textbooks sometimes recommend, such as writing out a character’s biography, or determining what his favorite food is, or most traumatic memory, etc. - that’s always seemed like a fraudulent way of assembling a fictional person Picture Quote #1

To show the American woman herself off to best advantage - that has always been my aim and that is my real biography Picture Quote #1

As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln Picture Quote #1

But the truth is, nothing delights me more than a biography of one of the truly great that proves he or she was an absolute shit Picture Quote #1

According to Kim Jong-Il’s biography, they say he has been constantly accused of dishonesty, drunkenness and sexual excess. So if he lived here, he could be in Congress Picture Quote #1

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Presidential biography is, by its nature, out of scale; no character is bigger, no action greater, than the person and the doings of the American president Picture Quote #1

I don’t want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone Picture Quote #1

I don’t consider ‘American Rose’ to be a biography so much as a microcosm of 20th-century America, told through Gypsy’s tumultuous life - it’s ‘Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.’ Picture Quote #1

I like vampires, tuberculosis, anything to do with blood. Then I read a biography of Rasputin and found out he’d had this daughter who had become a famous lion tamer and been billed as the daughter of the mad monk who was able to hypnotize animals with her eyes. It gave me a vision Picture Quote #1

People who attack biography choose as their models vulgar and offensive biography. You could equally attack novels or poems by choosing bad poems or novels Picture Quote #1

What’s bad about my biography? My father was a worker, my brothers, too, and I have always honestly served my country Picture Quote #1

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What’s bad about my biography? My father was a worker, my brothers, too, and I have always honestly served my country (Biography Quotes) One can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction (Biography Quotes) A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many thousand (Biography Quotes) Occasionally a single anecdote opens a character; biography has its comparative anatomy, and a saying or a sentiment enables the skilful hand to construct the skeleton (Biography Quotes) His biography is written in blood and tears; uncounted millions arise and call him blessed! A redeemed and reunited republic is his monument (Biography Quotes) Mills insisted that a sociologist’s proper subject was the intersection of biography and history (Biography Quotes) Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history (Biography Quotes) There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn’t be. He is too many people if he’s any good (Biography Quotes) The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its promise (Biography Quotes) Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended up hating them (Biography Quotes) I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our live (Biography Quotes) I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era (Biography Quotes) Your biography becomes your biology. This biography includes the totality of your choices, the things you feed your body - you thoughts, your actions, your food - the thing you feed your life (Biography Quotes) It’s great fun to memorize somebody’s biography, and then liberally play with the real facts of their life and go a step beyond reality (Biography Quotes) I’m writing my biography. It’s my business. This is what happened in my life, and I’m writing about it (Biography Quotes) I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn’t tell it like it was (Biography Quotes) Elizabeth Rothra’s excellent biography of Charles Torrey Simpson restates his philosophies about the intrinsic value of natural ecosystems like the Everglades. No one knew better than he the history of the plants and animals of South Florida or conveyed it with more humor and enthusiasm (Biography Quotes) Bob Hope was an entertainment colossus, shrewd and influential well beyond show business. Richard Zoglin’s biography captures it all--the public and private Hope (Biography Quotes) One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond external facts and gives the inmost motives. One of the most mendacious is autobiography (Biography Quotes) I’ve never gone through the paces that writing textbooks sometimes recommend, such as writing out a character’s biography, or determining what his favorite food is, or most traumatic memory, etc. - that’s always seemed like a fraudulent way of assembling a fictional person (Biography Quotes) To show the American woman herself off to best advantage - that has always been my aim and that is my real biography (Biography Quotes) As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln (Biography Quotes) But the truth is, nothing delights me more than a biography of one of the truly great that proves he or she was an absolute shit (Biography Quotes) According to Kim Jong-Il’s biography, they say he has been constantly accused of dishonesty, drunkenness and sexual excess. So if he lived here, he could be in Congress (Biography Quotes) Presidential biography is, by its nature, out of scale; no character is bigger, no action greater, than the person and the doings of the American president (Biography Quotes) I don’t want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone. (Biography Quotes) I don’t consider ‘American Rose’ to be a biography so much as a microcosm of 20th-century America, told through Gypsy’s tumultuous life - it’s ‘Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.’ (Biography Quotes) I like vampires, tuberculosis, anything to do with blood. Then I read a biography of Rasputin and found out he’d had this daughter who had become a famous lion tamer and been billed as the daughter of the mad monk who was able to hypnotize animals with her eyes. It gave me a vision. (Biography Quotes) People who attack biography choose as their models vulgar and offensive biography. You could equally attack novels or poems by choosing bad poems or novels. (Biography Quotes) What’s bad about my biography? My father was a worker, my brothers, too, and I have always honestly served my country. (Biography Quotes)

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