My songs form a kind of biography or diary of my life as they are about people I have loved and people… — Justin Hayward Copy Share Image
When I was younger I only read sports books. I loved the biographies that told how athletes developed. When I got into… — Tony Dungy Copy Share Image
“Literature supplements the lives of people and enables us to feel connected with the world. Shared stories blunt a sense of tragic… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
You ask whether I am going over to the history of science... no, I am not as old as that. — Christopher Kelk Ingold Copy Share Image
Find a great role model, perhaps someone who struggled and only really succeeded when older. Their biography and what they've done differently… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Along with all those books about Lincoln, Obama might read some biographies of Napoleon. The general who established the Legion d'Honneur understood… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I remember once asking Grandma about a book she was reading, a biography of Abraham Lincoln, and how she answered me: this… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them. — Kate Fleetwood Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, if a writer really gets her hooks into me, I'll want to read interviews, or listen to an interview, or read… — Brad Listi Copy Share Image
My first big acting performance was in the Marilyn Monroe biography piece, and it required frontal nudity. I talked to Mira Sorvino,… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
I push back against a deeply-entrenched tendency in American culture to label quickly and no longer even examine the labels that were… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through… — Varley O'Connor Copy Share Image
Life, individual or collective, personal or historic, is the one entity in the universe whose substance is compact of danger, of adventure.… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I had to imagine myself into certain aspects of [Julian Assange] character for our version of events. That involved extrapolating based on… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz. — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book - which would be… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again.… — David Strathairn Copy Share Image
A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
[Thomas Henry] Huxley is a very genial, comfortable being-yet with none of the noisy and windy geniality of some folks here, whom… — Henry James Copy Share Image
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