Autobiography Quotes - Page 12

• Because I didn't go to film school, I had a collection of books that were inspiring or taught me how to make movies, shorts with my friends back in Brooklyn, and one of those books was How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime which is Roger's autobiography. After reading that, I realized that oh my God, this guy is behind all my favorite Pam Grier movies. Oh my God, he made the Vincent Price Poe films that ran on television when I was little. He did Grand Theft Auto. He made Death Race 2000.

  Alex Stapleton

  Book, Reading, School

  Source: collider.com

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• Let me put it in a positive light, with that archive [of Anne Romaine], we have gained extensive knowledge about how [Alex] Haley and Malcolm X actually worked and how the book, the autobiography, was constructed.

  Manning Marable

  Book, Light, Archives

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• I always think about Katharine Graham - she was the publisher of The Washington Post. In her autobiography she talks about the way her parents met. Her father was, I think, in New York just walking by on his way home and looked into a store and saw the lady that became his wife. It was just pure luck. And she said that it once again reminds her of the role that luck and chance play in our life. I really believe that, too.

  Owen Wilson

  New York, Father, Believe

  Interview with Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 15, 2016.

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• Cultures, when they meet, influence one another, whether people like it or not. But Americans don't have any way of describing this secret that has been going on for more than two hundred years. The intermarriage of the Indian and the African in America, for example, has been constant and thorough. Colin Powell tells us in his autobiography that he is Scotch, Irish, African, Indian, and British, but all we hear is that he is African.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Years, Two, America

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I've written a lot of autobiography, which also involved listening.

  Frederick Buechner

  Listening, Involved, Written

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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• A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.

  Richard Hell

  Book, Moments, Thread

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The East is unfamiliar with those confessions, memoirs, and autobiographies so beloved in the West. There is a clear difference in tonality. One's gaze never lingers on the suffering humanity of Christ, but penetrates behind the kenotic veil. To the West's mysticism of the Cross and its veneration of the Sacred Heart corresponds the eastern mysticism of the sealed tomb, from which eternal life eternal wells up.

  Paul Evdokimov

  Heart, Differences, Humanity

  "Orthodoxy". Book by Paul Evdokimov, 1968.

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• With fiction, the works of women are often over-interpreted as autobiography, especially when the main character is a woman, especially if she is seen as privileged.

  Kate Zambreno

  Character, Fiction, Privileged

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've been asked to write my autobiography and really they only want 8 years (1962-1970), and I keep saying it would be five volumes before I even got into the band!

  Ringo Starr

  Writing, Years, Would Be

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• If the melody is telling me this is what the song is about, then I'm sort of forced into confession, autobiography or fantasy. If I don't do that, I've hamstrung the melody.

  Ben Folds

  Song, Fantasy, Confession

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• I think that today's books, in which every quote, every conversation, is taken from a memoir, an autobiography, an interview, or what-have-you, are much more convincing.

  Russell Freedman

  Book, Taken, Thinking

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• When I bought out my first autobiography I received the biggest tax bill of my life.

  Simon Weston

  Bills, Firsts, Taxes

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• There's a lot of bullshit in Peter Fonda's autobiography. A great deal of it is complete fabrication.

  Margot Kidder

  Bullshit

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Very few people have actually had a chance to see the raw material that was going to comprise these three chapters [of Malcolm X Autobiography]. The missing political testament that should have been in the autobiography, but isn't.

  Manning Marable

  Should Have, People, Political

  "The Undiscovered Malcolm X: Stunning New Info on the Assassination, His Plans to Unite the Civil Rights and Black Nationalist Movements & the 3 'Missing' Chapters from His Autobiography". Interview With Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 21, 2005.

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• The theme of my autobiography could only be repetition.

  Mason Cooley

  Theme, Repetition

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• 'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.

  Mary J. Blige

  Life Is

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• Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.

  Larry Wall

  Computer

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• An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.

  Richard Hell

  Stories, Ends, Born

  "Q&A: Richard Hell Has Gone to Heaven". Interview with Scott Martelle, www.esquire.com. March 8, 2013.

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• Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.

  Gary Kemp

  Lying, Reading, May

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• I realized going back and writing and explaining in details the difficulties I had lived actually became emotional again. It's like therapy but sometimes therapy can be painful. But it's
  part of life and part of the autobiography so I'll have to finish it sooner or later.

  Jenni Rivera

  Writing, Emotional, Details

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• Let's face it, it's only called Scrubs because I'm saving 'Zach Braff' for my autobiography.

  Zach Braff

  Saving, Faces

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• Empathic listening is so powerful because it gives you accurate data to work with. Instead of projecting your own autobiography and assuming thoughts, feelings, motives and interpretation, you're dealing with the reality inside another person's head and heart. You're listening to understand. You're focused on receiving the deep communication of another human soul.

  Stephen Covey

  Powerful, Communication, Heart

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.301, Mango Media Inc.

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• A garden that one makes oneself becomes associated with one’s personal history and that of one’s friends, interwoven with one’s tastes, preferences and character and constitutes a sort of unwritten autobiography.

  Alfred Austin

  Character, Garden, Taste

  Alfred Austin (1906). “The Garden That I Love”

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• When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman.

  Alessandra Stanley

  Writing, Black, Should

  "Shonda Rhimes strikes back against 'angry black woman' label" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. September 19, 2014.

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• Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others; but of the three, the only quite trustworthy one is the last. The acts of a nation may be triumphant by its good fortune; and its words mighty by the genius of a few of its children: but its art, only by the general gifts and common sympathies of the race.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Children, Book

  St. Mark's Rest preface (1877)

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