Biography

Merkel's biography does not embody the experience of most women, ... They are concerned with how they can have a family and a job, whether they should stay home for a few years after the birth, or how they can best raise their children.

- Gerhard Schroeder Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.

- Abbie Hoffman Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.

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Geography is about maps, But Biography is about chaps.

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I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.

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I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an animated project in development. I'm writing a lot of things and you never know if one of them is going to become a six or seven year project.

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Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

- Carter G. Woodson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.

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I think that I'm busy in the present, and I don't want to go back. Well, there's been an unauthorized biography, and you can't stop them. It didn't worry me.

- Albert Finney Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

During Hispanic Heritage Month, Fernandez will host the special four-hour miniseries on the history of Mexico featuring the story of the Aztecs, once the world's mightiest civilization and the Mexican Revolution of 1910, the first massive people's revolt of the 20th century. The programs will air on September 17 18th at 8 PM, ET (Repeats, Oct. 8 9) Additionally, Fernandez will host the biography of Pancho Villa airing September 15th at 7 PM ET. I'm pleased to honor our heritage by joining The History Channel en espanol to bring the history and culture of our people to the U.S. Hispanic market and to America, ... Our history defines and strengthens us. It is important that our children know our roots and that we celebrate our heroes not just during this month, but throughout the year.

- Alejandro Fernandez Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.

- John Irving Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

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This isn't really a biography. It's a tragedy.

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I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about these things-but you don't have to know anything about his life, even though I've just written a biography

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Biography tends to tilt history, because every person you are writing about becomes larger than life.

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I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.

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Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.

- Edmund White Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.

- Edmund White Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

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This is not a biography, ... It's just stories, you know. And the ones I chose to leave out need a lot more detail.

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I'm actually recording for PBS, doing some pickups for a narration I did on Chicago. When you're doing a biography of a town, I'm your voice

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I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.

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Many heroes lived before Agamemnon but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.

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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

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But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

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