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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

Life Journey You Your

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

Art Great Words Book

I read everything, but generally more fact than fiction - especially autobiographies and biographies. I've read 'Long Walk to Freedom' by Nelson Mandela at least twice on holiday. Every time, I'm totally awed by his vision, strength and forgiveness. I feel honoured to have got to know him and his wonderful wife Graca over the years.

Richard Branson

Strength Freedom Forgiveness Walk

I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.

Elizabeth Taylor

Me About Any Read

I love watching old movies, and I read a lot of autobiographies.

Love Movies Old Watching

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

Marilyn Ferguson

Walking Friends Strangers Your

I'm always embarrassed by those rugby player autobiographies which get written by journalists.

Always Rugby Get Those

I am opposed to autobiographies, mainly because most autobiographies lie.

I Am Lie Most Because

I think books, novels and autobiographies have a power to touch people far more personally than films do, so there's a bit more of a responsibility when you then dramatise it.

You Power People Responsibility

Having read my share of tell-alls over the year, including some that were passed off as autobiographies, I mostly feel sad - sometimes for the writer and sometimes for all the people in his way. I hope that the process of writing the tell-all gives some release and closure on what clearly was an unpleasant and unfulfilling life experience.

Life Sad Hope Experience

I love books and the latest autobiographies. I'm a Gemini and love being with people, but then again, I love my own company, which is when I read most.

Love People My Own Company

One of the autobiographies I really liked was Bob Dylan's. It was interesting because he didn't do it in a linear fashion.

Fashion Interesting He Because

I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.

Life My Life Too Much Because

Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself.

Love Me Yourself Writing

I always felt ,like, I'll leave autobiographies to the people who are kind of iconic.

Michelle Visage

People Always Leave Like

If you take the autobiographies of great sports people, they are almost always the same. They start with zero; they are always ambitious, know what they want to do in life, and have the confidence to do it.

Life Confidence Sports You

I like to read everything, really, especially autobiographies.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Everything Like Really Read

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.

Me People Remember Wish

As a business consultant, I am a voracious reader of self-help books, case studies of thriving companies, and the biographies and autobiographies of the world's most successful people. I relentlessly implement the best ideas into my businesses.

Best Business I Am People

I wanted to be a classical actress. I plodded along. I went to junior college in San Francisco, I was in a Repertory Company. My hero was Eva Le Gallienne, who was a great theater actress at the turn of the century who created her own company, and she wrote these hilarious autobiographies at the time.

Hero Time Great College

Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.

Me Lie Reading See

I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to the wind and really put it out there as they saw it.

Me Great Wind Think

I can't stand these autobiographies that start with, you know, 'I was born in Acton, and I went to such and such a school.' They just bore me.

Me You School Born

I do read a lot of autobiographies and biographies but from people who are not in my field - older women, older artists, Miles Davis.

Women People Who Miles

I write about the period 1933-42, and I read books written during those years: books by foreign correspondents of the time, histories of the time written contemporaneously or just afterwards, autobiographies and biographies of people who were there, present-day histories of the period, and novels written during those times.

Time People Years Just

If you read any sort of, like, military general autobiographies or biographies, most of them never wanted to fight, you know? It's necessary. War is necessary.

Brian Azzarello

War You Fight Never

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