"I used to devour biographies of people like……" — Emma Forrest
"I used to devour biographies of people like Natalie Wood and Marilyn."
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54 Quotes by Emma Forrest
Emma Forrest has 54 quotes on this site.
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There's so much guilt there attached to having a perfectly good life.
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When I am in a relationship, I don’t wear lipstick at all. I hate the smearing, the retouching, the constant…
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If you don't know who you are, madness gives you something to believe in.
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I would say at the moment the only person who could have played me this past year would have to…
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When I was younger I loved Betty Blue, and at the moment I'm completely besotted with Angelina Jolie. But sometimes…
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At least you know where you are with blood. At least other people can see it.
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Every fear, every night terror, every hour I cried for Liev, every fight with Sebastian is registered as a neat…
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Everyone asks about how I'll feel about the tattoos and scars in thirty years. I always say: "I'll like them."…
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I like the cuts - they comfort me - I can't lie.
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I think that's such a beautiful sentiment. Love should only last as long as a very expensive and impractical bikini…
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I don't see what's so good about being genuine. Clog dancing is genuine. Isn't being fake more of an achievement?…
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It's all in her walk, a cartoon swagger. Part Jayne Mansfield, part Muhammad Ali. Men never know if it's an…
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More Biographies Quotes
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one of 333 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
— Peter Ackroyd
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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
— Arthur Balfour
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I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers…
— David Bowie
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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
— Anita Brookner
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Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses,…
— A. S. Byatt
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When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it…
— Jane Campion
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
— Thomas Carlyle
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I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
— William Ellery Channing
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Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.
— Deepak Chopra
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Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most…
— Mark Twain
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I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better…
— Charles Babbage
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