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    I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.

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    I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.

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    I believe there's only one autobiography you can do.

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    If I did not publish this autobiography [Les Mots] sooner and in its most radical form, it is because I considered it exaggerated.

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    I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

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    If the melody is telling me this is what the song is about, then I'm sort of forced into confession, autobiography or fantasy. If I don't do that, I've hamstrung the melody.

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    History is the autobiography of a madman.

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    I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me.

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    I do like a good mystery. I'm reading Edgar Allan Poe now. I also like autobiographies.

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    I love to read autobiographies. [What is your favorite autobiography?] the autobiography of Coach John Wooden. Everybody has a struggle so it's about seeing how they overcome it and be the best they can.

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    I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I had trouble with food, I got a nutritionist. There's no story there.

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    I love memoirs and autobiographies in general.

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    I'm the only person who has ever found the right way to build an autobiography.

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    I read Gloria Swanson's autobiography just because I wanted to know what it was like in the time.

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    I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.

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    I've always had a sneaking fondness for Martin Van Buren. He wrote his autobiography, you know, and never once mentioned his wife. Now that's what I call a mans man.

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    I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.

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    I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.

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    I was raised to farm work.

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    I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone.

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    I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.

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    Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

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    I have a children's book already out and my autobiography.

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    My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

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    My autobiography is one of the truest, most frankly written books ever published in the western hemisphere.

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    My grandfather started his autobiography before he died; he never finished it. I would like to finish his autobiography because I finished mine.

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    Let's face it, it's only called Scrubs because I'm saving 'Zach Braff' for my autobiography.

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    Often your face is your autobiography

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    One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.

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    Once I read autobiography as what the writer thought about his or her life. Now I think, 'This is what they thought at that time'. An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

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    The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

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    Photos are our autobiography, a way of telling who we are.

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    There's a lot of bullshit in Peter Fonda's autobiography. A great deal of it is complete fabrication.

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    There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it becomes another novel.

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    There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

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    The theme of my autobiography could only be repetition.

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    The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies.

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    They asked me what I wanted to call my autobiography. I suggested: The Definitive Volume on the Finest Bloody Fast Bowler That Ever Drew Breath.

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    The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.

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    [The public has] the habit now of invalidating opinions emanating from me by reference to my age and infirmities.

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    Truth gets buried, that's why people write autobiographies.

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    To write an autobiography of Groucho Marx would be as asinine as to read an autobiography of Groucho Marx.

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    When I bought out my first autobiography I received the biggest tax bill of my life.

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    9/11/01 Gina: Especially today, with the enormity of current events, I want to convey to you again, how much you mean to me and how proud I am to be your husband. The hard work that you are engaged in right now is exhausting, invisible and largely thankless in the short term. But honey, please know that buried at the core of this tedium is the most noble and important work in the world- God's work; the fruits of which you and I will be lucky enough to enjoy as we grow old together. Watching these little guys grow into men is a privilege that I am proud to share with you, and the perfect fulfillment of our marriage bonds. You are a great mom. You are a great wife. You are my best friend. You are very pretty. Happy Birthday. -Matt

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    A belief which is based on force of habit is one of the saddest and most harmful phenomena of our time-as in the shade of a stone wall everything new grows slowly, becoming stunted, lacking the sap of life. There were too few rays of love in that faith, too many insults, too much animosity and too much envy, which always goes hand in hand with hate. And the light emanating from that faith was nothing but the phosphorescent glow of putrefaction.

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    Advice is autobiography.

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    After a short time I felt my truck began to move. The force of the water and the rising floodwaters lifted me and my truck off the road and through an orchard, bumping into trees, flood debris and who knows what else.

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    a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.

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    All I'd ever done was sing songs that were dead straight and expressed powerful new realities. I had very little in common with and knew even less about a generation that I was supposed to be the voice of.

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    ... A man's wife can hold him devilish uneasy, if she begins to scold and fret, and perplex him, at a time when he has a full load for a railroad car on his mind already.