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I will leave no memoirs.
I'll never put my memoirs in print.
I knew that I had to write my memoirs.
Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.
At 45, I am too young to write my memoirs.
I love memoirs and autobiographies in general.
I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.
I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.
Too many memoirs focus on childhoods and it's a bit turgid.
People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.
Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23.
People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs.
I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
The Dumas memoirs - which I also discovered when I was a kid - had a big impact on me.
I could make the title of my memoirs: 'It's got cinematic disaster written all over it.'
In India, too many people do not write memoirs, but Natwar Singh and P. C. Alexander did.
People write memoirs - this is my take, anyway - out of a great sense of self-importance.
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
I don't think my husband has any plans to pen his memoirs. There are enough people doing that for him.
Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.
I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.
I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
I'm very detail oriented. I think that's why people enjoy my memoirs - because I tend to remember everything.
A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
Something happened when the memoirs of so-called ordinary people, like myself, suddenly hit the bestseller list.
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.
When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.
I have some very good friends who've written memoirs, but it's not for me. It's just not a format that I'm interested in.
We have so many great memoirs from women in front of the camera, from Tina Fey, Mindy Kaling, Amy Poehler, and Amy Schumer.
People ask me if I am going to write my memoirs. But even if I wanted to, I would not be able. I have extremely few memories.
Civil servants and government functionaries do not write memoirs because they hope to get more government jobs or assignments.
'Memoirs of a Geisha' is everything you'd expect it to be: beautiful, mesmerizing, tasteful, Japanese. It's just not very hot.
I get about five memoirs per week in my mailbox, and few of them inspire anything but a desire to pick up the channel changer.
In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels.
Gelsey Kirkland has had more than her share of demons, as her two distressing memoirs - and her violently checkered career - attest.
I've always loved reading diaries and memoirs and just getting a sense of different personalities and what made them tick as individuals.
I've always liked the idea of memoirs, going into someone else's life, going through someone else's day and getting out of your own head.
I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd.
'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book.
When Goldie Hawn wrote her memoirs, no one said Goldie Hawn was snitching. When Jane Fonda wrote her memoirs, no one said Jane Fonda was snitching.
My father was highbrow: writing long biographies of Dante and stuff like that. Ghostwriting sportsman memoirs? That was sort of the lowest of the low.
I toured around the country and met all these Broadway producers who put me in all these Neil Simon plays like 'Brighton Beach Memoirs' and 'Biloxi Blues.'
I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the effect that person or time had on you.
All of Wes Anderson's films are confections, memoirs created in cinematic snow globes, with the subtext that memory is the most extraordinary confection of all.
The memoirs of the Grand Duchess Olga are an entertaining record for anyone interested in the imperial family's home life during the last years of Russian autocracy.
I've always joked that my food memoirs will be titled 'Brutta ma Buona,' the phrase Italians use to describe food that's delicious but rustic-looking at best: ugly but good.
It's hard to get in the head of somebody. The closest we can get is through the words they've left behind, either their contemporary correspondence or after-the-fact memoirs.