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I want to play Lena Horne because I've always been fascinated with her. Her talent was astounding and more than that, her life story is incredible.
Naya Rivera / Actress
Fascinated
Life Story
Talent
Life Always More
Astounding
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Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.
Yayoi Kusama / Artist
Energy
Life Story
Personal Life
Seeking
Life Art Myself
Certainly
Destroy
Devote
However
Personal
Telling
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I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.
Patti Smith / Singer-Songwriter
Daughter
Growing Up
Heavy
Independent
Life Story
Mother
Movie Star
Stars
Life Me Grow
Grow Up
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I would say I'm an inspirational guidelines book. You can take my life story or scenarios or songs and relate to them and apply them to your everyday life.
Chris Brown / Recording Artist
Inspirational
Book
Everyday
Everyday Life
Guidelines
Life Story
Relate
Scenarios
Song
Life Your My Life
Apply
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I did a film called 'Victor' that I'm really proud of! It was a period piece and the true life story of Victor Torres. I play his mom, and it's a very moving film.
Lisa Vidal / Actress
Life Story
True Life
Victor
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I'm going to have to call up Spike Lee. I did a cameo for him in 'Malcolm X,' and I'm trying to get him to do my life story and the history of the Black Panther Party.
Bobby Seale / Activist
Life Story
Party
Cameo
Lee
Malcolm
Panther
Spike
Spike Lee
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Susan Burton's life story - filled with trauma, struggle, and true heroism - is precisely the kind of story that has the potential to change the way we view our world.
Michelle Alexander / Professor
Filled
Heroism
Life Story
Our World
Precisely
Susan
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There's nothing more liberating about starting with something that is not written. You pretty much create the history of that character and that character's life story.
Irone Singleton /
Liberating
Life Story
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'IronE' stands for an eagle in flight with an unbroken spirit. I coined that term because it is indicative of my life story and the fact that I'm out of the inner city.
Irone Singleton /
Flight
Inner City
Life Story
Unbroken
Life City My Life
Eagle
Indicative
Inner
Stands
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My life story is very special. I was raised with a special family as both my parents are teachers. They decided before I was born that I was going to be a chess champion.
Judit Polgar / Chess Player
Champion
Chess
Decided
Life Story
Raised
Life Family My Life
Teachers
Both My Parents
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Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don't.
Stephen Curry / Basketball Player
Truth
Certain
Crazy
Crazy Life
Life Story
Order
Successful
Truth Is
Life Truth World
Seem
Story
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Our hiring is almost completely built around just going through someone's life story, and we look for moments when they had to make important decisions, and we go deep on those.
Tobias Lutke /
Hiring
Important Decisions
Life Story
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I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.
Bill Bryson / Author
Comic
Instinct
Life Story
Pertinent
Stories
Use
World
Life Family Myself
Device
Hang
Observations
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Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ... but nobody is the author.
Hannah Arendt / Philosopher
Actors
Life Story
Stories
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He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer.
Simon Callow / Actor
Becoming
Life Story
Pleasure
Writer
Great Writer
Telling
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I can't write my life story without Emmitt and Troy. They can't write their life stories without me. We're tied together forever. This is a day to remember for the rest of our lives.
Michael Irvin / American Football Player
Sports
Football
Forever
Life Story
Our Lives
Tied
Writing
Life Together Me
Troy
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I really feel that my life story is a continuation of the Great American Dream - the immigrant who comes to this country and is allowed to excel. How many other countries would let me do that?
Friedrich St. Florian /
American Dream
Continuation
Great American
Life Story
Other Countries
Life Great Me
Excel
Immigrant
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My dad's life story was a string of kindness. He treated everyone as an equal, whether it was the bank teller or the bank president. He even attributed his survival to the courage of kindness.
Daniel Lubetzky /
Life Story
Survival
Attributed
Bank
String
Teller
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For the serious biographer, history and the life story of a real individual are inseparably intertwined. Get the facts wrong, or distort them, and the life story gets distorted: becomes fiction.
Nigel Hamilton / Biographer
Intertwined
Life Story
Distort
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My life has been such a blur since I was 18, 19 years old. I haven't even had time to contemplate my own life. By forcing yourself to write your life story you learn a great deal about yourself.
Grant Achatz / Chef
Blur
Life Story
Life Time Great
Contemplate
Forcing
Great Deal
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We all have a life story and a message that can inspire others to live a better life or run a better business. Why not use that story and message to serve others and grow a real business doing it?
Brendon Burchard / Author
Running
Business
Better Life
Inspire
Life Story
Real
Use
Why Not
Why
Grow
Doing
Run
Life Business Grow
Message
Serve
Story
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Surely the whole point of writing your own life story is to be as honest as you possibly can, revealing everything about yourself that is most private and probably most interesting for that very reason.
Judith Krantz / Novelist
Interesting
Life Story
Revealing
Stories
Writing
Life Yourself Your
Surely
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I had written many things as a journalist, but I had no idea if I could write something scary or romantic or touching that wasn't me writing about someone else's life story. It was really exciting to try.
Jeff Giles /
If I Could
Life Story
No Idea
Scary
Life Romantic Me
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During his brilliant campaign, President Obama wove a powerful narrative about the American we all hope for. And that hope was grounded in a very powerful reality: President Obama's own inspiring life story.
Cynthia P. Schneider /
Inspiring
Brilliant
Grounded
Life Story
Narrative
President Obama
Campaign
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Everything sounds better when Billie sings it, so the only ones I'll keep for myself are ones that really feel just super personal to me in their content, like this is my life story and maybe not anybody else's.
Finneas /
Life Story
Life Myself Me
Life Myself Better
Content
Sings
Super
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'Confessions of a Video Vixen' is not a book about my encounters with celebrities, or anyone else for that matter. It is my life story, thus far, which just so happens to include some people you may have heard of.
Karrine Steffans / Author
Encounters
Life Story
Video
Anyone Else
Celebrities
Confessions
Life My Life People
Include
Thus
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I had to stop traveling alone because I missed so many planes. When somebody runs up to you in the airport and begins to tell you their life story, you can't say, 'Excuse me, boo,' as they're weeping on your bosom.
Iyanla Vanzant / Spiritual Teacher
Running
Airports
Excuse
Life Story
Planes
Up To You
Weeping
Life Alone Me
Airport
Life Alone Your
Begins
Boo
Bosom
Missed
Runs
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Yes, I believe stories are very important to all performances. The life story of the performer shapes their work, and the life stories of the audience alter how they receive the work, what they read into the performer.
Marina Abramovic / Artist
Audience
Life Story
Shapes
Life Work Believe
Alter
Performance
Receive
Yes
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They'll probably start working on my movie sometime... They are doing a complete movie of my life story. It will not be based on any negativity. It will be more about my life, from a kid, how I came up and why I came through.
Ike Turner / Musician
Kids
Life Story
Negativity
Stories
Complete
Life My Life Start
Sometime
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Al Gonzales is a dedicated public servant and exceptionally qualified to be our nation's next Attorney General. I know that a lot has been said about Judge Gonzales' life story. It is a story of the fulfillment of the American Dream.
Mel Martinez /
American Dream
Attorney
Dedicated
Fulfillment
Life Story
Qualified
Servant
Al
Judge
Attorney General
Exceptionally
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I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.
Dawn French / Actress
Feelings
Half
Life Story
Lying
Ought
Unfortunate
Writing
Written
Life Experience Me
Badly
Biography
Lies
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It is easy to make stuff up - and easy to dig up information and repeat it or report it to others. But to find a real life story with real people in real life situations is quite difficult and time-consuming. Yet, the rewards are worth the effort.
Lee Gutkind / Writer
Life Story
Real Life
Rewards
Time Consuming
Dig
Repeat
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When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them overcoming the hardship. This skill is particularly important for children, whose identity tends to get locked in during adolescence.
Bruce Feiler / Writer
Happy
Add
Adolescence
Children
Happy People
Identity
Important
Life Story
Locked
Overcoming
People
Shows
Skills
Life Important People
Challenge
Chapter
Faced
Families
Particularly
Life Children People
Skill
Story
Tends
Whose
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Through the potent example of his own life, President Obama enabled us to believe the best about America, and, therefore, about ourselves. That uplifting narrative - essentially equating the promise of America with his extraordinary life story - swept candidate Obama into the presidency.
Cynthia P. Schneider /
Uplifting
Extraordinary
Life Story
Narrative
Presidency
President Obama
Promise
Life Best Believe
Candidate
Potent
Swept
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I think that any woman who had a conversation with me and had an opportunity to truly understand my life story wouldn't view it through a critical lens. There are people, of course, in the world of politics, who look for things to be critical about. But those people are already against you.
Wendy Davis / Lawyer
Conversation
Critical
Life Story
Lens
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My mom can't defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman, with such an open heart. It's a real hard line, and I crossed it. I took everyone's life story and assumed it would be a great thing to put on screen. I was being selfish and I feel so horrible about it. I feel so guilty.
Nikki Reed / Film Actress
Mom
Being Selfish
Guilty
Horrible
Life Story
Real
Selfish
Life Mom Great
Life Great Amazing
Assumed
Crossed
Defend
Great Thing
Herself
Line
Screen
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Tina Fey's autobiography is very, very funny and very well written. It's her life story: it's about how she grows up in New York. There's no obvious reason why I should enjoy this - I mean, this is the autobiography of a woman in her early 40s in New York. I'm a guy from a small town in Denmark.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau / Actor
Autobiography
Denmark
Fey
Grows
Life Story
Obvious
Small Town
Tina
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I've been writing all these books that have been largely autobiographical and yet, really, they don't tell you anything about me. I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.
Bill Bryson / Author
Comic
Instinct
Life Story
Pertinent
Life Family Myself
Autobiographical
Device
Hang
Largely
Observations
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My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.
Melissa Gilbert / Actress
Family
History
Attempting
Children
Complicated
Divorce
Dysfunction
Family History
Fiction
Life Story
Mother
Share
Usual
Adult
Life Love Family
Life Love History
Within
Adult Life
Context
Dearly
Fact
My Life
Revised
Separate
Spent
Story
Whom
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Despite the natural belittling of one's self, the doubts, the insecurities, we have to wake up to the realisation that we all write our own autobiography, we are the authors of our life story. Realising that, write a good story with your life and make sure to write yourself as the protagonist. Be the hero of your journey.
Yossi Ghinsberg / Author
Journey
Good
Autobiography
Despite
Good Story
Hero
Life Story
Natural
Realisation
Realising
Self
Wake Up
Yourself
Life Good Journey
Sure
Make
Life Good Hero
Authors
Own
Write
Doubts
Insecurities
Up
Protagonist
Story
Wake
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