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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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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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Reading a newspaper is like reading someone's letters, as opposed to a biography or a history. The writer really does not know what will happen. A novelist needs to feel what that is like. A. S. Byatt
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I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is a great book. Denis O'Hare
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My first biography was 'Our Golda: The Life of Golda Meir.' To research that book, I bought a 1905 set of encyclopedias. Those books told me what each of the places Golda Meir lived in were like when she lived there.
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I wrote a great deal about the Civil Rights Movement when I was writing for 'The Nation' in the '60s, and also for Esquire magazine. Reading the biography of Coffin, it just reminded me that in those days, when you saw the term 'Christian,' it usually meant people for civil rights and for justice. Dan Wakefield
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Mental illnesses involve biological brain disorders, no matter what Tom Cruise says, Brad Grey
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I was always told that I'd have to do a movie with a white guy in order to get the money. That's the way it was. That made me feel that I should have chosen some other profession, so I could have gotten my just deserts. Louis Gossett, Jr.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to. M. Night Shyamalan
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We are at a loss to understand why Norway has chosen to go down this particular route.
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P is positive emotion, E is engagement, R is relationships, M is meaning and A is accomplishment. Those are the five elements of what free people chose to do. Pretty much everything else is in service of one of or more of these goals. That's the human dashboard. Martin Seligman
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My mom is one of my role models in a complicated way. I learned from her how to be a good mom. She was one of those natural moms who really took to it. Her chosen profession was teaching. She loves kids. But she was extremely frustrated and unhappy because for much of my life she was a stay-at-home mom. Leslie Morgan Steiner
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We were available, but FEMA chose to send them to San Antonio or Utah or other far destinations, Roger Wicker
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Watching the talent, enthusiasm and the dedication of all the students reinforced why I chose this profession 20 years ago.
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We're frustrated. I think they've chosen to play hardball and it's unfortunate.
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We're frustrated, ... I think they've chosen to play hardball and it's unfortunate.
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The other team saw all of our players leave and maybe that lulled them to sleep.
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The people who lived here couldn't leave it.
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We usually work 14-hour days, and sometimes 16 to 18 days, which doesn't leave much time for anything else - most Sundays are spent recovering. Catherine Bell
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We'd like to be here when it's all said and done. We'd obviously like to come back and leave it all on this floor.
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Leave me alone. I'm fine. Barry White
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working document... not a take it or leave it document. Ariel Sharon
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We're from Arizona. The No. 1 rule is never, never leave your vehicle.
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The plane will be ready to leave Tuesday if the visas are granted, Fidel Castro
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I'll leave a store if I hate the music. If it's just, like, techno, I feel like my brain is going to explode. Kim Gordon