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I love memoirs and autobiographies in general.
Brett Davern / Theatre Actor
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I do like reading autobiographies, if I'm honest.
Neil Warnock / Football Manager
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I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.
Elizabeth Taylor / Actress
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I like autobiographies. I wouldn't mind making one of those.
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I like to read everything, really, especially autobiographies.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau / Actor
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I love watching old movies, and I read a lot of autobiographies.
Winona Ryder / Actress
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I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.
Ranbir Kapoor / Actor
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I am opposed to autobiographies, mainly because most autobiographies lie.
Kamal Haasan / Film Actor
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I don't want to get into autobiographies; I don't want to talk about myself.
Rollie Fingers / Baseball Athlete
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I always felt ,like, I'll leave autobiographies to the people who are kind of iconic.
Michelle Visage / Singer
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Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself.
Paul Stanley / Guitarist
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Growing up, I read all three of Frederick Douglass' autobiographies by the time I was 12.
Michael Tubbs /
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I'm always embarrassed by those rugby player autobiographies which get written by journalists.
Peter Jackson / Film Director
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I like reading autobiographies and magazines like Boxing News and Men's Health, especially when away for tournaments.
Luke Campbell /
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When I do read, it tends to be serious books like autobiographies and if I've met a famous person, I'll read up on them.
Graeme Souness / Football Player
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One of the autobiographies I really liked was Bob Dylan's. It was interesting because he didn't do it in a linear fashion.
Daniel Bryan / Professional Wrestler
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I do read a lot of autobiographies and biographies but from people who are not in my field - older women, older artists, Miles Davis.
Viv Albertine /
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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 /
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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
John Ruskin / Art Critic
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Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Marilyn Ferguson / Author
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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.
Viv Albertine /
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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.
Cilla Black / Singer
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I wanted to be a movie director. I was just obsessed with watching movies and camera shots and directors. I read autobiographies and stuff of directors.
Gavin Creel / Actor
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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 / Writer
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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 / Former First Lady Of The United States
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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.
Robert Sheehan /
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Obama is a very fine writer with an excellent command of language. His memoir 'Dreams From My Father' is a fine book, but it will not rank as one of the great autobiographies.
Fred Kaplan /
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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.
Eddie Trunk / Music Historian
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The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.
Harold Acton / Writer
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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.
Petr Cech /
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I feel autobiographies should be written when you're retiring and there's so much to talk about as you've been working for so many years then. It becomes more interesting and there's more material to go in the autobiography.
Asha Parekh /
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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.
Clay Clark /
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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.
Gary Kemp / Musician
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I had several publishers, and they were all the same. They all wanted salacious. And everybody is writing autobiographies, and that's one reason why I'm not going to do it. If young Posh Spice can write her autobiography, then I don't want to write one!
Anita Pallenberg / Actress
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In the mid-nineties, I quit my job as a senior feature writer at 'The Mail' on Sunday in the U.K. and became a 'ghost writer,' collaborating with politicians, pop stars, psychologists, soldiers and sporting legends who needed help in penning their autobiographies.
Michael Robotham / Writer
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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.
Annette Bening / Actress
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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.
Alan Furst / Author
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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 / Business Magnate
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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.
Brad Feld /
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