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It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury. ↗

— George Plimpton

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Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. ↗

— Criss Jami

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How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves. ↗

— Julian Barnes

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My approach to the work is the same, whether I had the lead or a supporting role. I consider myself a character actor in the true sense of the word. Unless I'm doing my autobiography, I'm playing a character. ↗

— Ving Rhames

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I had to live and breathe Margaret Thatcher for a few months. I totally engulfed myself in her life. I read her autobiography and a biography, 'The Grocer's Daughter.' ↗

— Alexandra Roach

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The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology. ↗

— John M. Smith

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Although every step must be taken to protect against a chemical or biological attack in America, our nation would survive the use of those weapons as we did when anthrax was mailed to our Capitol and other targets. ↗

— Adam Schiff

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I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

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For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?' ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

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For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

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