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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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A biography is like a handshake down the years, that can become an arm-wrestle.
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They don't pile up too much oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrate or phosphate. Those are kept under some kind of biological control. That's how the past has been. The big issue is, will the future work that way?
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It wasn't until (Dew) wrote the biography that we really found out a lot about what he had been doing. We just never felt that what he was doing was particularly difficult or meaningful. We were just normal.
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The support for Gore comes much more quickly and much more easily once voters get a sense of who he is. Until they understand something about his motivation and his biography and his background, it is difficult for voters to get a handle on him outside of the image of a vice president. Tad Devine
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The songs will tell a story that I have imagined existing between the lines of Andersen's biography and some of his most famous tales, ... They speak of a misfit's love for an unattainable woman and a struggle between a huckster and someone who composes music in secret. Elvis Costello
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Presidential biography is, by its nature, out of scale; no character is bigger, no action greater, than the person and the doings of the American president.
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They offered me a handshake of ?10,000 to settle amicably. I told them that they would have to be a lot more amicable than that. Tommy Docherty
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There will be a handshake at some point, and that's about it.
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A person's word and a man's handshake ought to mean something. Maybe you're better for not having them in the long run because they not men of their word. We want people who are loyal, stand-up people and men of their word. Joe Glenn
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To Zeal, an honest handshake was worth everything. If Zeal told you something and he shook on it with you, it was a deal.
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I never get tired of performing to people who want to hear me. Hell, that's my handshake to the world. I'm doing just what I've wanted to do since that day I was 15 and heard Lenny Breau play the guitar. Randy Bachman