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On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.

~Eberhard Weber

Topics: Awful Because Biographies Closer Conduct Conductors Dictator Enough Fail Famous Give Hand Orchestra Other People Person Pretty Private Read Realize Relationships Requires Thought Who You

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I used to devour biographies of people like Natalie Wood and Marilyn.

~Emma Forrest

Topics: Biographies Devour Like Marilyn Natalie People Used Wood

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Perhaps the best thing about biographies is that they enable us to slip the strictures of time and provide a bracing corrective to our tendency to see everything in the dark glass of our own era, with all its blind spots, motes, beams, and distortions.

~Eric Metaxas

Topics: About Best Biographies Blind Dark Enable Era Everything Glass Our Own Perhaps Provide See Slip Spots Tendency Thing Time Us

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Six-hundred-page biographies of German theologians aren't known to fly off the shelves.

~Eric Metaxas

Topics: Biographies Fly German Known Off Shelves Theologians

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I like a good fun chick-lit book as much as I like historical fiction, mysteries, or biographies, I like to be well-rounded!

~Erin Duffy

Topics: Biographies Book Fiction Fun Good Good Fun Historical Historical Fiction Like Much Mysteries Well-Rounded

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I started out as a writer of fiction, but nobody wanted to publish my work as a young man. So I decided to put my interest in the narrative writing of biographies.

~Fred Kaplan

Topics: Biographies Decided Fiction Interest Man Narrative Nobody Out Publish Put Started Wanted Work Writer Writing Young Young Man

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Serious biographies need to have a historical base in facts.

~Fred Kaplan

Topics: Base Biographies Facts Historical Need Serious

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I first wrote a biography of Thomas Carlyle, and it turned out I loved writing biographies and had a talent for it. I believed I had a contribution to make.

~Fred Kaplan

Topics: Believed Biographies Biography Contribution First Had Loved Make Out Talent Thomas Turned Writing Wrote

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The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.

~George Steiner

Topics: Between Biographies Domestic Gray Human Immense Majority Oblivion Transit

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