#biographies

At the Sex Institute in Bloomington, Indiana, they were a phenomenal help, too. We went out there for a few days, and they gave us access to materials. And the biographies, there are four or five, ranging from very poor to excellent. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#biographies #days #excellent #few #five

...to her all books were the same and, as with her subjects, she felt a duty to approach them without prejudice...Lauren Bacall, Winifred Holtby, Sylvia Plath - who were they? Only be reading could she find out. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#books #celebrities #equality #information #knowledge

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written. ↗

— Mark Twain

#biography #buttons #cannot #clothes #himself

Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#negative #portray #side #some #western

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

#books #cannot #completely #different #different subjects

I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like. ↗

— Meg White

#autobiographies #biggest #find #i #idols

I like a good fun chick-lit book as much as I like historical fiction, mysteries, or biographies, I like to be well-rounded! ↗

— Erin Duffy

#book #fiction #fun #good #historical

I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into. ↗

— Jonathan Frakes

#american #american literature #baseball #biographies #condition

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies. ↗

— Cynthia Ozick

#become #biographies #certain #faces #number

I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

#any #autobiographies #haven #i #me