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biographies appetite immense
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality. Charles Baudelaire
biographies lost lost-faith
I had lost faith in biography. A. N. Wilson
biographies legacy trouble
There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer. Arthur Wing Pinero
biographies use actors
What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor. Conrad Veidt
biographies sides negative
Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all. Deepak Chopra
biographies bills stories
Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel. James McBride
biographies contradiction human-life
Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified. Jose Ortega y Gasset
biographies admirable autobiography
Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography. Hilaire Belloc
biographies unloved
unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories F. Scott Fitzgerald
genius reason highest
The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason. Charles Caleb Colton
genius literature nodding
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
genius literature may
The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.
genius talent particular
Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.
genius eccentricity
Eccentricities of genius. Charles Dickens
genius athens males
The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny. Camille Paglia
genius poetic emily
Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.
genius said mark
There is none but he Whose being I do fear; and under him My genius is rebuked, as it is said Mark Antony's was by Caesar. William Shakespeare
genius republican throwing
Historically, the Republicans have been geniuses at throwing away advantages. Bob Packwood
talent given ifs
Talent comes from God. If you have been given some, then value it, cultivate it, work and develop it. Denzel Washington
talent performers knows
Greatly talented performers don't know - often spectacularly - what's best for them, don't know what their talents really are, and don't know what's just plain wrong for them. Dick Cavett
talent easy difficult
It's easy to have talent at 20 but what is difficult is to have talent at 50. Edgar Degas
talent cleanliness interest
I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can. Charlie Kaufman
talent
You have to be mentally 'there.' Your talent is there, but you have to be mentally there, too. Billy Wagner
talent being-me sometimes
I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me. Ben Affleck
talent human-nature brevity
Brevity - the sister of talent. Anton Chekhov
talent ton trying
We're getting better and have a ton of talent. We're trying to just get things down. Elyse Bogaert
talent humans
Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express. Brenda Ueland