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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

~Benjamin Disraeli

Topics: Biography History Life Nothing Read Theory Without

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I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an animated project in development. I'm writing a lot of things and you never know if one of them is going to become a six or seven year project.

~Bill Mumy

Topics: Album Animated Become Biography Development Going Involved Know Lot Music Never New Out Project Series Seven Six Still Television Television Series Them Things Writing Year You

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I want the 'Book of Basketball' to do well if only so I can shop an absolutely ridiculous topic for my next book: like, a book about basketball cards, or an unauthorized biography of A. J. Daulerio.

~Bill Simmons

Topics: About Absolutely Basketball Biography Book Cards Like Next Only Ridiculous Shop Topic Want Well I Can

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I read a lot of science fiction and biography - these are my two favorite genres. My favorite science fiction writers are Hertling, Suarez, Gibson and Stephenson, but I enjoy many others. I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.

~Brad Feld

Topics: Although Biography Books Business Dislike Enjoy Favorite Fiction Fiction Writers Genres Gibson Lot Many Others Read Reading Science Science Fiction Them Two Writers

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I'm an avid biography reader.

~Brent Spiner

Topics: Avid Biography Reader

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My first biography written in '73 was not 'Journey To The Moon.' It was 'Return To Earth.' Because for me, that was the more difficult task - disappointment.

~Buzz Aldrin

Topics: Because Biography Difficult Difficult Task Disappointment Earth First Journey Me Moon More Return Task To The Moon Written

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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

~Carlos Fuentes

Topics: Autobiography Biography Death Like Off Own Put Puts Words Write You Your

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Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

~Carter G. Woodson

Topics: Accomplished Biography History Inspiration Lose Record Teaching Those Which Who

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In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.

~Catherine Drinker Bowen

Topics: Biography Black Fact Facts Fiction Fictional Ink Mixed Points Printed Red Should Writing

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The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on.

~Christine Quinn

Topics: Biographies Biography Elementary Elementary School George George Washington Great Had King Library Luther Martin Martin Luther Martin Luther King Read Roosevelt School Section Story Until Washington Were

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