Stella Benson Quotes
Sometimes I think there are two kinds of people - the autobiographists and the biographists.Stella Benson
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Social revolutions are never simple.
Yair Lapid -
When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
Lady Gaga -
If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.
Caitlin Moran -
Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.
Walker Percy -
We may be born equal but we're not equally talented.
Larry Gelbart -
If I were sure I would pass the physicals, I would be on the next space shuttle to Mars or some other planet. I'll leave the calculations and the navigational tasks to you while I bask in your ingenuity. Find me a place in the capsule and watch me outdo Michael Jackson's moonwalk to the music of the spheres.
Wole Soyinka
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I tried to be really tough when I was younger. I felt I had to stand up for myself. I never felt like I fit in.
Missy Peregrym -
Labor also wants shorter hours and a say in how work shall be done.
Sidney Hillman -
What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
Ian Mckellen -
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
Carlos Fuentes -
Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it.
W. P. Kinsella -
I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.
Diana Ross
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The F.B.I. was very happy with the article they produced, which was entitled, "The Black Merchants of Hate," that came out in early 1963. What's significant about that piece is that that became the template for what evolved into the basic narrative structure of The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
Manning Marable -
Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.
Tom Stoppard -
When Michael Frere came to see Elizabeth about her autobiography All the Dogs of My Life she found him ‘such a boring little man. But it is because we are all growing old, and the bones of our inadequate minds come through the flesh that hid them.’ She hadn’t always found him boring, and Love, one of her best novels, is largely based on their romance.
Elizabeth von Arnim -
I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
Waylon Jennings -
Once you digitize data, you can actually analyze patterns and relationships in geographic space - relationships between certain health patterns and air or water pollution, between plants and climate, soils, landscape.
Jack Dangermond -
A lot of times, in the beginning of my career, I put pressure on myself just because I wanted to perform so well. I just wanted to be perfect.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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I will say that anyone who supports Scottish independence should go to Athens. Because nothing works. It is a disaster. It is a ruined, dirty place where people do not have money or future prospects. The day one after independence, Scotland would be worse.
Philip Kerr -
Sometimes I think there are two kinds of people - the autobiographists and the biographists.
Stella Benson