"One of the more fatuous remarks I've heard……" — Alastair Campbell
"One of the more fatuous remarks I've heard in recent days is that 'My Life,' Clinton's autobiography, is too long and, at almost 1,000 pages, short it is not. But this man was for eight years the President of the most powerful country on earth."
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Alastair Campbell
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35 Quotes by Alastair Campbell
Alastair Campbell has 35 quotes on this site.
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My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.
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May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen…
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The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our…
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The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his…
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There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.
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Jeremy, are we going to play your games?
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Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.
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My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the…
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Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so…
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One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.
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By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is…
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Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and…
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More Autobiography Quotes
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Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is…
— Kate Atkinson
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
— John Berger
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'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.
— Mary J. Blige
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Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data…
— Nicholas Delbanco
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Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of…
— Marilyn Ferguson
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Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.
— Robert Breault
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I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so…
— Philip Roth
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Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.
— Nikola Tesla
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But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when…
— Nikola Tesla
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When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.
— Nikola Tesla
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A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.
— Nikola Tesla
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