#biographies

There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again. You get in there and get to know the man by all of those pieces of information. ↗

— David Strathairn

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I thought of the one thing about home that I missed, my dad's study with its built-in, floor-to-ceiling shelves sagging with thick biographies and the black leather chair that kept me just uncomfortable enough to keep from feeling sleepy as I read. ↗

— John Green

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History is the essence of innumerable biographies. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc. ↗

— George Seaton

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Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

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

— Mark Twain

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I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so and so money. I find that very tedious. The best biographies are written by other people. ↗

— Leslie Caron

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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

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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

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