Biography Quote by Ian M Bates

“If you can choose your way into a cage, you can choose your way out.”

— Beth Kempton

I've read every Madonna biography. I've also looked up every pop star to see how they first made it. The biggest thing I learnt…

— Marina and the Diamonds

I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is…

— Denis O'Hare

“What drove us crazy wasn't necessarily the sexual freedom his critic claimed he was unleashing, but freedom, period. Freedom to be yourself, to express…

— Joel Spector Larry Geller Patricia Romanowski

“Maybe he'd never come acrross anybody as well versed at objectifying body parts as I was. In my defense, this was an occupational hazard;…

— Aiden Shaw

It's time for male leaders to not only ask for binders of qualified women, but to re-write the definition of 'qualified.' The best man…

— Madeleine M. Kunin

“Pong had mutated into large stand-up Sega consoles by '82 and here was some extra revenue the guys were well up for. So the…

— Tony Wilson

I think that I'm busy in the present, and I don't want to go back. Well, there's been an unauthorized biography, and you can't…

— Albert Finney

“The trouble with life (the novelist will feel) is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably…

— Martin Amis

“I don't know enough to have any regrets”

— Vince Grabin

“Up to four chauffeurs, two secretaries, two personal maids, and a masseur traveled with her to each home”

— Estella M. Chung

I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about these things-but you don't have to know anything about…

— Stephen Greenblatt