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Autobiographies Quotes
On reading real lives instead of invented ones.
One quote here stands out for starting early — reading all three of Frederick Douglass's autobiographies by age 12. Others explain the appeal more broadly, noting real lives touch readers more personally than film. More in the About quotes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always embarrassed by those rugby player autobiographies which get written by journalists.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I read all three of Frederick Douglass' autobiographies by the time I was 12.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the autobiographies I really liked was Bob Dylan's. It was interesting because he didn't do it in a linear fashion.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a business consultant, I am a voracious reader of self-help books, case studies of thriving companies, and the biographies and autobiographies of the world's most successful people. I relentlessly implement the best ideas into my businesses.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you read any sort of, like, military general autobiographies or biographies, most of them never wanted to fight, you know? It's necessary. War is necessary.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel autobiographies should be written when you're retiring and there's so much to talk about as you've been working for so many years then. It becomes more interesting and there's more material to go in the autobiography.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be a classical actress. I plodded along. I went to junior college in San Francisco, I was in a Repertory Company. My hero was Eva Le Gallienne, who was a great theater actress at the turn of the century who created her own company, and she wrote these hilarious autobiographies at the time.
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- Nov 07, 2020