320 Quotes About Autobiography
- Author Andre Agassi
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Our best intentions are often thwarted by external forces - forces that we ourselves set in motion long ago. Decisions, especially bad ones, create their own kind of momentum, and momentum can be a bitch to stop, as every athlete knows. Even when we vow to change, even when we sorrow and atone for our mistakes, the momentum of our past keeps carrying us down the wrong road. Momentum rules the world.
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- Author Andre Agassi
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A ball feels different off every player's racket-there are minute but concrete subtleties of force and spin. Now, hitting with her (Steffi Graf), I feel her subtleties. It's like touching her, though we're forty feet apart. Every forehand is foreplay.
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- Author Jonathan Anthony Burkett
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Do you consider yourself a blessing or just another person?
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- Author Clare Balding
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I believe that horses bring out the best in us. They judge us not by how we look, what we're wearing or how powerful or rich we are, they judge us in terms of sensitivity, consistency, and patience. They demand standards of behavior and levels of kindness that we, as humans, then strive to maintain.
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- Author Margaret Atwood
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I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. If you'd wanted the narrative line you should have asked earlier, when I still knew everything and was more than willing to tell. That was before I discovered the virtues of scissors, the virtues of matches.
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- Author Malcolm X
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How is it possible to write one's autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?
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- Author Clive Barker
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I'm a poet,' the young man said, 'And it's my job to remember the sadness of things.
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- Author W.H. Auden
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An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint his own portrait has almost always also developed an ego-consciousness which paints himself painting himself, and introduces artificial highlights and dramatic shadows.
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- Author Randy Alcorn
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What you do with your resources in this life is your autobiography.
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