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• [Thomas Henry] Huxley is a very genial, comfortable being-yet with none of the noisy and windy geniality of some folks here, whom you find with their backs turned when you are responding to the remarks that they have made you.

  Henry James

  Science, Noise, Huxley

  Henry James, Jack Kerouac (1999). “Henry James: A Life in Letters”, Viking Press

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• [W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Science, Rivers, Riders

  Bronislaw Malinowski (2001). “Man and Culture: An Evaluation of the Work of Bronislaw Malinowski”, p.6, Psychology Press

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• My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.

  Kitty Kelley

  Happiness, Sadness, Men

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• I have believed in the biographies I have written. I truly can tell you that they have influenced our society politically, culturally, socially.

  Kitty Kelley

  Our Society, Written

  "Kelley softens tone in new books" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. February 07, 2013.

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• I would love to do an unauthorized biography about Congress. It's like a secret society up there.

  Kitty Kelley

  Secret, Congress, Secret Society

  "Kelley pulls curtain back on Camelot" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. December 17, 2012.

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• The difference between authorized and unauthorized biographies is the difference between riding in carriage or squatting in steerage.

  Kitty Kelley

  Differences, Riding, Carriages

  "Unauthorized, But Not Untrue" by Kitty Kelley, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2010.

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• I don't give you editorial control. I want to meet you. I want to interview everybody who's ever known you. I want to see your correspondence. I want to see your bank statements. But you will have no control over what I write. That's why I really believe in the unauthorized biography.

  Kitty Kelley

  Believe, Writing, Giving

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• For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.

  Alfred Nobel

  Writing, Impossible, Feels

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• I love to read different books on completely different subjects at the same time. I cannot focus on one. I read a few pages of literature, then I jump to philosophy and at the same time I'm reading biographies of Mahler.

  Gustavo Dudamel

  Philosophy, Book, Reading

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes I read a biography of some tempestuous artist and find myself longing for fireworks! booze! bloody fights!; I do think that life must be so much more thrilling when you're actively miserable.

  Lauren Groff

  Fighting, Artist, Thinking

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• I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in my life have become the most important.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Important, Three, Fiction

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• When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Charles Lindbergh, my pantheon of favorite heroes. Then I would write my own things and sew them together and try to make my own book.

  Douglas Brinkley

  Book, Hero, Writing

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• In a world of alternative lifestyle options, strategic life planning becomes of special importance. Like lifestyle patterns, life plans of one kind or another are something of an inevitable concomitant of post-traditional social forms. Life plans are the substantial content of the reflexively organised trajectory of the self. Life-planning is a means of preparing a course of future actions mobilised in terms of the self's biography. We may also speak here of the existence of personal calendars or life-plan calendars, in relation to which the personal time of the lifespan is handled.

  Anthony Giddens

  Life, Mean, Self

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• Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's letters and his poems. The letters were fresh, intimate and irreverent, as though he were present and speaking. The Keats spell went very deep for me.

  Jane Campion

  Reading, Eight, Years

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• I'm not one of those people who writes a biography or tries to figure out what kind of ice cream the character liked when he was 10.

  Miguel Ferrer

  Writing, Character, Ice Cream

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Reading, Presidential, Enjoyed

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• I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Reading, Horror Fans, Nonfiction

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• The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle.

  Carl Jung

  Writing, Fate, Men

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• I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.

  Bruno Tonioli

  Reading, Range, Thrillers

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• I like to read biographies of authors that I love, like Richard Yates. I also like to see what non-fiction authors are out there. My bible is Something Happened. It's one of the greatest books I've ever read. But if I don't read a Dostoevsky soon I'm going to kill myself.

  Richard Lewis

  Book, Fiction, Ifs

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• Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.

  James McBride

  Bills, Stories, Clinton

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• Packed with fascinating personal perspective and testimony, Michael Takiffs A Complicated Man wholly justifies its title. The book is far more than a kaleidoscopic oral biography of President Bill Clinton. Aspect by aspect, it guides us through the struggles of postmodern America, as the most ambitious baby boomer of his generation seeks to modernize the Democratic Party-and, as in a Greek drama, is fated to be destroyed. Veritably, an all-American saga, with a cast of thousands-favorable and unfavorable.

  Nigel Hamilton

  Baby, Drama, Party

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• Sports biography at its best. Rich in period detail, anecdote, and fresh perspective, Strong Boy paints both the good and the bad sides of success, as America's growing celebrity culture turned a simple Irish American gladiator into a national, in fact international hero. A very human story with profound parallels for our sports-obsessed culture today!

  Nigel Hamilton

  Sports, Strong, Hero

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• Let This Voice Be Heard fulfills the mandate of biography at its best because Maurice Jackson has captured the history of a great moral movement's origins in a single, extraordinary life. An indispensable addition to the antislavery bibliography.

  David Levering Lewis

  Voice, Movement, Moral

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• Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents and of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington.

  John Legend

  Kings, Kids, Rights

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