Autobiographical Quotes
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All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster`s autobiography.
Federico Fellini
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All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster`s autobiography.
Federico Fellini
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All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the personages. In fact, I am behind everything that happens and that is said, but I am never talking about myself in first person singular. Something in me--probably a disl...
Pedro Almodovar
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At some point it`s going to add up to some sort of strange police blotter sketch if all these things in my films are true. My hope is that I will make enough movies that they can`t all conceivably be autobiographical.
Noah Baumbach
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The sensibility of the film-maker infuses the project so people see a picture like Annie Hall (1977) and everyone thinks it`s so autobiographical. But I was not from Coney Island, I was not born under a Ferris wheel, my father never worked at a place that...
Woody Allen
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It`s amazing to find that so many people, who I thought really knew me, could have thought that `Sunset Boulevard` was autobiographical. I`ve got nobody floating in my swimming pool.
Gloria Swanson
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It`s so attractive, too attractive. Your writing becomes more real than your reality. Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous. After writing her semi- autobiographical novel ...
Sophie Marceau
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[about Arthur Miller`s semi-autobiographical play "After the Fall"] They should have called it "After the Money"!
Jason Robards
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[on his song "Everything Is Broken"] Critics usually don`t like a song like this coming out of me because it didn`t seem to be autobiographical. Maybe not, but the stuff I write does come from an autobiographical place.
Bob Dylan
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[on his song "Everything Is Broken"] Critics usually don`t like a song like this coming out of me because it didn`t seem to be autobiographical. Maybe not, but the stuff I write does come from an autobiographical place.
Bob Dylan
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What does it matter what my personality is? It`s fair enough to talk about the stories, but they`re not an autobiographical display.
Akio Morita
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True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
Alexander Gregg
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There`s a certain point, when you`re writing autobiographical stuff, where you don`t want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.
Amanda Abel
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There is no doubt that this film is autobiographical, but at the same time it also tries to portray an ordinary couple in a language that everyone can understand.
Sophie Marceau
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The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I`ve felt, or something somebody`s told me. It all comes together.
Tracy Chapman
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The last few years has been full of highs, lows, dips and incredible success. It`s been time for me to find myself as a person. I was seeing my friends, buying records and just doing a lot of normal things to make a record that`s really autobiographical. ...
Craig David
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The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called `Billy`s Booger.` It was an autobiographical piece about a kid who was really bad at math.
William Joyce
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The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.
Francois Truffaut
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Poets can`t resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.
Alicia Dlugosh
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My work looks like a comic book in form, but it`s not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff.
Harvey Pekar
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Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them.
Alicia Dlugosh
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Most of my work isn`t directly autobiographical. It tends to be an amalgam of things I`ve seen and heard and thought and conversations I`ve had.
Ben Elton
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Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.
Lasse Hallstrom
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It`s quite autobiographical. It talks about relationships. The last record was naïve because we were. At that point, we would have done anything to succeed. And it`s easy to get distracted and surround yourself with toys. But I wanted to get back to a se...
Darren Hayes
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In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.
Dario Argento
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I wouldn`t write anything autobiographical. If you`ve lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it`s a little bit vain, it seems to me.
James Lee Burke
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I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff.
Kazuo Ishiguro
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Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.
Terry McMillan
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