#graph

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 had lost faith in biography. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#faith #had #i #lost

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized. ↗

— James Wolcott

#become #been #design #iconography #like

Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream. ↗

— James Wolcott

#before #collective #culture #enriches #iconography

The particular feature of Berlin - well, all you need to do is look at the map: the geographical position of the city right in the heart of Europe, and the separation of the most powerful two blocs we've ever had in history, which went all the way through Germany. ↗

— Markus Wolf

#blocs #city #europe #ever #feature

I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in a larger context one day. This has only developed recently, now that I have overcome my inner aversion to writing an autobiography in the first place, specifically one having to do with my younger years. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#always #any #assigned #autobiography #aversion

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their mind. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#literary-criticism #pornography #religion #sex #religion

I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#autobiography #biography #called #central #comedy

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#infinite #language #more #much #music

Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems. ↗