#auto

My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#bartender #college #dad #fifth #go

I thought about that the other day after I went to the grocery store and had to sign fifteen autographs before leaving. On one hand, it's just so flattering. On the other hand, sometimes it would be nice to get the bread and leave, you know? ↗

— Clay Aiken

#after #autographs #be nice #before #bread

Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs. ↗

— Fred Allen

#ask #autographs #church #even #god

Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups. ↗

— Tom Allen

#auto #auto industry #blunt #care #care costs

More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent. ↗

— Anthony Anderson

#before #guilty #innocent #more #oftentimes

In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul. ↗

— Dario Argento

#characters #each #little #little piece #me

People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work. ↗

— Andrea Arnold

#autobiographical #course #directly #i #i think

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#characters #concerned #don quixote #ego #every

Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost automatically because the characters are now pulling the story. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#almost #automatically #because #characters #come

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. ↗

— Harold Acton

#autobiographies #best #biographies #decades #fiction