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“My vision of where I wanted to go in life was not normal. The whole idea of a conventional existence was like… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
“The Greatest” is a bite-your-tongue-book. Ultimately a tragic tale it is also immensely uplifting and easily the best footballer biography I have… — Mike Parry Copy Share Image
“Living in China has made me appreciate my own country, with its tiny, ethnically diverse population of unassuming donut-eaters.” — Jan Wong Copy Share Image
The transgressive nature of biography is rarely acknowledged, but it is the only explanation for biography's status as a popular genre. — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
I loved Victoria Glendinning's bio of Vita Sackville-West. I also loved Michael Holroyd's immense biography of Lytton Strachey. — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
I don't think there is ever objective biography. Our vision of our subject is always shaped by who we are. So I… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“A regime that can suspend or abrogate the constitution and run the country on its whims and caprice should be ashamed of… — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
“Up to this point, it was rare for the mad to be distinguished from the poor, the homeless, the indigent, beggars, vagabonds,… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
“My mother calls it 'the black tax.' Because the generations who came before you have been pillaged, rather than being free to… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“To look back before 1800 is to enter another world, one where the number of institutions for the mad was a tiny… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
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“Awake, my soul! Why should I give hours and days any longer to the vain world, when there is such a world… — Andrew Bonar Copy Share Image
“The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human… — Harry Kroto Copy Share Image
“Schools had let out early and most businesses were closed in anticipation of the storm. My last ride dropped me off in… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“James Tilly Matthews was not a prophet. He was a gifted, perhaps fragile individual who suffered intensely, and for little if any… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
There are a few writers whose lives and personalities are so large, so fascinating, that there's no such thing as a boring… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“George was an atheist, and so am I. But how I long now for an afterlife - a world of light or… — Justin Spring Copy Share Image
“Truth was the last thing on my mind, and even if there was such a thing, I didn' t want it in… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“I have heard the most fantastical gossip about myself and each time I thought, "If only my life were that exciting, fun,… — Aiden Shaw Copy Share Image
“Jobs had always been an extremely opinionated eater, with a tendency to instantly judge any food as either fantastic or terrible. He… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“At Bow Street Magistrates' Court the essential facts were established. The man's name was James Tilly Matthews. He was a pauper of… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
“We had a teacher called Fanny Menlove, and I remember once when she was out of the room Nancy went up to… — Peter FitzSimons Copy Share Image
“December 29, 1946: Snowing this morning. The year seems to be dying in a light white blanket. Only three more days of… — Angie Klink Copy Share Image
“A popular Harvard business professor urged his students to read the obituaries in the New York Times before they read anything else,… — Georges F. Doriot Copy Share Image
“Was he a good father?" To their surprise, I shake my head and smile. "No," I reply candidly. "He wasn't a good… — Deana Martin Copy Share Image
The things we make have one supreme quality - they live longer than us. We perish, they survive; we have one life,… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
“Other thoughtful year-round gestures to staff included silver picture frames for wedding anniversaries, flowers to ailing spouses, additional checks for medical bills… — Estella M. Chung Copy Share Image
“Be realistic, Aiden, I told myself. You know your value to the penny and it's measured in inches, time, age, stamina, looks,… — Aiden Shaw Copy Share Image
The most frequent thing people said to me about Princess Diana when I was conducting interviews for my biography was that she… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
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“The art stream is filled with snags and has no volume so it has no support. If you finally choose art, no… — Theresa Sjoquist Copy Share Image
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“It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I wrote a great deal about the Civil Rights Movement when I was writing for 'The Nation' in the '60s, and also… — Dan Wakefield Copy Share Image
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