#graph

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years. ↗

— Joan Collins

#ago #autobiography #book #every #first

Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#autograph #back #being #cigarette #fame

Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred. ↗

— George Crumb

#contemporary world #culture #due #earlier #extensions

When preparing for a concert, I do lots of training. I work with a choreographer to create great moves and then I have to keep my voice strong with lessons. ↗

— Miley Cyrus

#concert #create #great #i #i do

My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal. ↗

— Nigel Dennis

#first #nocturnal #photographing #project #serious

But I was right and the real world seemed increasingly nonsensical. Why train for years to do a job you bitched about all day? Didn't it make more sense to follow your dreams and maybe do a little good at the same time? I didn't want to be a lawyer or a bank manager or a goddamn burger flipper. We only get one life and I wanted mine to be exciting... ↗

— Mark Millar

#dreams

I've looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if I'm in a fencing move, with a guitar in my hands instead of a sword. ↗

— Neil Diamond

#during #fencing #guitar #hands #i

You don't want to be photographed? You don't want to be known? Then you don't need to be out there peddling movies. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#movies #need #out #photographed #then

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#history #life #nothing #read #theory

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#biography #days #demise #far #his