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• An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you’re born and continues until the end.

  Richard Hell

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  Tags in Autobiography, Continues

• If the landscape changes, then I don’t know who I am either. The landscape is a refracted autobiography. As it disappears you lose your sense of self.

  Iain Sinclair

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  Tags in Autobiography, Landscape

• For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, ‘Why don’t you write your autobiography?’

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

  Della Reese

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Autobiography

• All autobiography is self-indulgent.

  Daphne du Maurier

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  Tags in Self, Autobiography

• This sounds like my autobiography, but I thought this would be a good time to sound off about myself, as I think that I have been silent too long about my views and opinions.

  Bob Kane

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  Tags in Thought, Autobiography

• I’ve been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It’s not all pleasant!

  Pat Morita

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  Tags in Remember, Autobiography

• If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you’ve read his autobiography.

  P. J. O'Rourke

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• An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

  V. S. Naipaul

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• All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.

  Federico Fellini

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• I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc.

  George Seaton

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  Tags in People, Autobiography
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  One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you’re not dead.

  Joseph Barbera

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  Tags in Attractive, Autobiography, Writing

• My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

  Sidney Poitier

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Autobiography

• ‘Nil By Mouth’ was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that’s not my dad.

  Gary Oldman

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  Tags in Self, Autobiography

• There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author’s own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

  William Trevor

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  Tags in Autobiography, Pain

• The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called ‘Billy’s Booger.’ It was an autobiographical piece about a kid who was really bad at math.

  William Joyce

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Book, Autobiography

• 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

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Autobiography, Useful, Journey

• I haven’t read any of the autobiographies about me.

  Elizabeth Taylor

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• I don’t think anyone should write their autobiography until after they’re dead.

  Samuel Goldwyn

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• Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

  Philip Guedalla

  Topics in Inspirational, Truth

  Tags in Autobiography, Vehicle, People