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Whenever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. The living images become only remote facts of a distant time or place. Furthermore, it is never difficult to demonstrate that as science and history, mythology is absurd. Joseph Campbell
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There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country, and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs. Will Rogers
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I don't consider 'American Rose' to be a biography so much as a microcosm of 20th-century America, told through Gypsy's tumultuous life - it's 'Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.' Karen Abbott
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Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus on all the sordid details in the life of the person who made the discovery. I find this path to be voyeuristic but not enlightening. Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Whether in print or other media, a good biography is more than a court record or a stringing together of already familiar sources. It breathes life into the subject. Noel Riley Fitch
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Mental illnesses involve biological brain disorders, no matter what Tom Cruise says, Brad Grey
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I have a piano in my kitchen. I read a great biography about Tom Waits that said that he had a piano in his kitchen; he had a grand piano in his kitchen. And I thought, 'Well, if Tom Waits has one, then I must.' Jamie Cullum
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For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.
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There are a few writers whose lives and personalities are so large, so fascinating, that there's no such thing as a boring biography of them - you can read every new one that comes along, good or bad, and be caught up in the story all over again. Robert Gottlieb
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This was a team that really loved each other. It's rare that you find a team that really pulls for each other, that really loves each other. David Justice
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I've always loved 'Before and After' stories, in books, magazines, and TV shows. Whenever I read those words, I'm hooked. The thought of a transformation - any kind of transformation - thrills me. And that's the promise of habits. Gretchen Rubin
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I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be! Kathryn Lasky
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When I was a teenager, I loved political conventions. Robert Krulwich
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She had a passion for what she did, ... She loved to work and she loved to make music. Justin Timberlake
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She really loved her neighbors there. She made a lot of friends there. Ronald Williams
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She never complained about it. She loved those kids.
loved travel
She loved to travel with me and my sister. If we called and said we were going anywhere, we had to take her along. Linda Thompson
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She loved to talk to people; even people she didn't know.