Biographies Quote by Eleanor Antin Download Open image “Why should I be limited by my own biography?” — Eleanor Antin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Biographies My own Should Should i
I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work. — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
That requires quite an imaginative leap because it's hard for me to imagine that my biography would be of much interest to anyone, and… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
Why do we read biography? Why do we choose to write it? Because we are human beings, programmed to be curious about other human… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer. — Arthur Wing Pinero Copy Share Image
A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
If everything in my career has to be made into an autobiography, then there will be people who might think that I am trying… — Himesh Reshammiya Copy Share Image
I got very keen on biography because I wanted to change it. I wanted to stretch the form. I think of it as a… — Ann Wroe Copy Share Image
“Only one who takes over his own life history can see in it the realization of his self. Responsibility to take over one's own… — Jürgen Habermas Copy Share Image
The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history. — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
The Internet is not a place. It’s a great void, a black hole, from which you can call up an incredible amount of disorganized… — Eleanor Antin Copy Share Image
Pompeii, especially, with its grand murals and its flourishing gardens haunted by the dark shadow of Vesuvius, has always suggested uncomfortable parallels with our… — Eleanor Antin Copy Share Image
[There was] an openness not found on the East Coast and a generosity of spirit. New York was always formulating the correct ways to… — Eleanor Antin Copy Share Image
I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history. — Eleanor Antin Copy Share Image
Science, Government, Education, Art, the cultural monolith may be said to exist primarily to exercise a paternal influence, decorously if possible, aggressively if necessary,… — Eleanor Antin Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In… — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's. — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical theory or… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share Image
The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in scale. I… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. [...] I think biographies are very urgent… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I don't want to say that most rock bands live these formulaic biography existences - but they kinda do. There's always a divorce. There's… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
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