Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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You can't say yes to every role, and you have to make people miss you. I don't want people to get sick of me.
Tahj Mowry -
I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!
Kajol -
Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
Mahatma Gandhi -
At its very best, the Western model speaks for itself. It's the model that put food on the table. It's the refrigerators. It put a man on the moon.
Dambisa Moyo -
Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do.
Ted Nelson -
Every human being has the ability to completely control his own mind.
Napoleon Hill
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We are sufficient to do everything possible to heal this Earth.
Bill Mollison -
I just don't let that mentality be a part of my world.
Sarah Silverman -
I was not convinced with the outcome. One day off helped. I was rejuvenated. We know that from now on we cannot lose.
Daisuke Matsuzaka -
I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.
Kate Fleetwood -
The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesnt discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip.
Leon Edel -
It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the novel with perhaps a fuller understanding of Proust's heredity, hinterland, and upbringing. . . . This fascinating book is full of interesting social and cultural observation, of information about French Jewish life, the position of Jews in society and, of course, the Dreyfus case. But it is essentially a study of one of the most remarkable and fruitful of mother-son relationships. As such it is a book that every Proustian will want to read.
Allan Massie
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I don't want to say that most rock bands live these formulaic biography existences - but they kinda do. There's always a divorce. There's always an OD. There's always a bad business manager.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
..when writing a biography, you can't trust certainties. Just as you're about to pounce on something that will condemn you to a tidy answer, pooooofff! It vanishes.
Alexander Masters -
Biography is the only true history.
Thomas Carlyle