A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, the history of people in relation to other people. I reach for these outward stories to make sense of my own life, and how my story intersects with a larger public history.
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Related Somehow, I realized I could write books about black characters who reflected my own experiences or o... TANANARIVE DUE My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis. ANISH KAPOOR It's more than just Oklahoma history. It's regional and national history. BOB BLACKBURN Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write... GAIL COLLINS I think that God kind of put me in the place in my life to not be quiet about it, not be quiet about... HAILEY BALDWIN The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if... DALAI LAMA My own special knowledge is about the Abenaki people and, to some degree, my Iroquois neighbors. But... JOSEPH BRUCHAC What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is li... 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PHILIPPA GREGORY That larger story in 'Salvage the Bones' is just about survival, and I think that, in the en... JESMYN WARD The power of the family stories and the family history is really remarkable. There seems to be somet... ROBYN FIVUSH Sharing stories that fill our chambers with an explosion of unique voices is a means to instigate an... KILROY J. OLDSTER I tell these stories because I have lied about my life to people who have been kind to me and I am t... ROBERT GOOLRICK Yes, I learned history at school; I know everything about apartheid. My dad, he bought the books abo... CASTER SEMENYA Sovereignty is not just at the national level; that's the mistake of Brexit that other people ma... EMMANUEL MACRON I am shamelessly biased about the people in my life, and it makes sense to me that other people are ... AKHIL SHARMA For me, my life is a journey. JAY ELECTRONICA People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government... CAROL MOSELEY BRAUN There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just ... J.D. SALINGER It is just the sweetest story. It is the perfect story for a musical, because it is about love and i... BO THORP In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a ... EDMUND WHITE I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories ... FRANCINE PASCAL History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the... A.J.P. TAYLOR When you make it an issue, it does not just become an issue, but it also grows to become a history a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight ... BERNHARD VON BULOW What is astonishing about the social history of the Vietnam war is not how many people avoided it, b... JOHN GREGORY DUNNE The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are deali... ROBERT MOTHERWELL The only way you can be concerned about being on a national level is when you've won a couple of sta... BOBBY BENTLEY People all over, even when it's not their history, they just enjoy the stories. It gives people the ... LAURENCE KNIGHT I feel I am a role model to many, not just for my designs, but also for the fact that I started my o... CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN Writing was a way to get away from my life as a programmer, so I wanted to write about other things,... ELLEN ULLMAN I write about modern people who share a deep sense of connection to the mysteries of the past. I fin... IAN CALDWELL History is a simple piece of paper covered with print. The main thing is still to make history, not ... OTTO VON BISMARK 'Confessions of a Video Vixen' is not a book about my encounters with celebrities, or anyone... KARRINE STEFFANS 35. 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CHRISTOPHER KOCH With 'The Sixth Sense,' my dad and I discussed how this was not so much a horror story as a ... HALEY JOEL OSMENT I'm drawn to stories about ordinary people who get tangled up in an extraordinary event or idea ... SOPHIE OKONEDO I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of... AMY GRANT History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The tr... PAUL MURRAY I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every sto... SYLVIA PLATH I'm just going to have to turn it up a notch, and get out, knock on doors and tell my story. My stor... GARRY THOMAS I think there's a sickness in the world. People are sick at heart and mind and spirit. People are ju... CRIS WILLIAMSON I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, whic... ANTONIO TABUCCHI I never limit myself when it comes to telling stories; I think people can see that in my body of wor... F. GARY GRAY I'm not just a reader or a writer; I inhale written words like they're my oxygen. It's not a hobby. ... NICOLA HAKEN I am writing in despair. I am cursing the day of my birth just like Job. I would have wished a quick... GAO ZHAN This is to let the public see what national security is all about. Just to let the public know that ... HENRY LIU Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity: the identity of a cultu... A.S. BYATT I’m interested in connecting with readers and strangers through poetry. I want to create real inti... ALEX DIMITROV I felt my own life experience could be helpful to other people, not only because of the death of my ... GERALD LEVIN The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myse... NATASHA TRETHEWEY So I saw that there was only me. There was only me who could worry about what was happening here, in... MARKUS ZUSAK I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the sta... CECELIA AHERN It's time for me to make my own decisions. Everybody else has made decisions for me. My dad and ever... DAVID IRONS Sure, I went through my 'J'accuse' phase. I was so angry for so long, I could hardly hav... FRANK MCCOURT I think that the story of my life is not all about me, but mostly of my friends. After all, it is no... NICOLE MEYER This is not a story anymore about George Bush's service in the National Guard. It's a story about CB... JONAH GOLDBERG You have to wonder how they got it up there. But, this is what life is all about. History, which he ... DOUG WELLS I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the pri... JESSICA LYNCH My way of being with people is probably incredibly unhealthy, in that I'll be incredibly social,... CHUCK PALAHNIUK I suppose I just had this Christian idea about how I ought to go about my life. I thought, 'If I... PADDY CONSIDINE It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I j... VANILLA ICE There's so much mythology within my own world. A lot of stories that I have are real-life people, bu... WILL POWER I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write... GEORGE W. BUSH We packaged the story to educate and energize people of all ages. We designed it for the whole famil... GEORGE BECKER I am thrilled to write 'The Treasure Chest,' and to bring to life not only the childhoods of... ANN HOOD My life is a series of things that just happen. HAROLD RUSSELL I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want t... JACKIE COLLINS In my standup work, I always do these characters, older people who are just off to the side. It'... BILLY CRYSTAL You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about mov... DAVID MAMET In my twenties, it was so important for me to show people I had all these other books and these othe... EVELYN LAU I can't write my life story without Emmitt and Troy. They can't write their life stories without me.... MICHAEL IRVIN To me, it's really not about how I look - it's about who I can be. It is my job to bring the... IMELDA STAUNTON We wanted to tell these stories ... and give people a quick way to read about black history. Hopeful... JAMES TOWNSEND Life is always uncertain. No one knows what's in there. But now my life is everywhere, I would just ... HAPPY POSITIVITY BLANKLY AHEAD I was very small, about 3 or 4 I think, and just wanted to be the people on telly telling these wond... DAVID TENNANT At school, up to the age of sixteen, I found history boring, for we were studying the Industrial Rev... ALISON WEIR I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My d... JOY FIELDING I just don't understand how you can not be concerned about your appearance. From time to time I&... STEPHEN BAYLEY The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being abl... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN At the end of the day, my life isn't about other people's work. I've got to stop giving ... PADDY CONSIDINE Your Life Is My Story, But
My Life Is Your History DR. ARUN S SON We have to program the mind of the public that age is not ugly. Age is just age. Wake up, American c... CARMEN DELL'OREFICE We have to program the mind of the public that age is not ugly. Age is just age. Wake up, American c... CARMEN DELL'OREFICE It's kind of a mystery to me, as far as my own life experiences and what I've witnessed - wh... ANNETTE BENING
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NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I'm very honest in my music and I'm often asked to explain the lyrics; as an introvert, I fi... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I took temp jobs, recorded a demo in the evenings and eventually shopped a record deal. All I knew w... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I like doing very high action things. Running, boxing, a lot of free weights. They're not heavy.... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger ... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I would love to do something with Coldplay. NATASHA BEDINGFIELD The common denominator is a love of music. NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I get very deep into the writing and recording process. NATASHA BEDINGFIELD My family comes from New Zealand, but I'm a London girl. I was born and raised in London, but I&... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I did actually like school. When I was 17, I was in college, but before that, I was home-schooled. I... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I know I should keep this a secret, but Celine Dion is something of an icon to me. NATASHA BEDINGFIELD The music technology scene is changing so fast it's hard to keep up. NATASHA BEDINGFIELD Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make ... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD People don't listen to one radio station. On iTunes you can mix different worlds and bring count... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it. NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I don't want to be the next anyone. I just want to be me, now. And that means all different thin... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I was... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I'm the diva from the future. The next gig's on the moon. Catch me while you can. NATASHA BEDINGFIELD Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under... NATASHA JOSEFOWITZ What is luck? It is not only chance, it is also creating the opportunity, recognizing it when it is ... NATASHA JOSEFOWITZ Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there. NATASHA JOSEFOWITZ I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it. NATASHA LYONNE When Mathematics unfold through Origamis, when video games target Medicine and Education, NATASHA TSAKOS The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk... NATASHA LEGGERO I got a job as soon as I could - 11 or 12. I started babysitting and then I got a part-time job at a... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD That's usually how I get to know strangers - get inappropriately touchy. Once they've experi... NATASHA LYONNE I love arranging my music, not in alphabetical order but by mood, creating playlists for when I have... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD Every four weeks I go up a bra size... it's worth being pregnant just for the breasts. NATASHA HAMILTON As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go a... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD The only thing I knew was that I would give myself permission to imagine anything, and reverse engin... NATASHA TSAKOS No one else can speak the words on your lips Drench yourself in words unspoken Live your life with a... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD There are beauty icons that I can never be like, sorta like a Gena Rowlands - I'll never have th... NATASHA LYONNE He is the definition of sexy. This is a guy who is very confident with both his feminine and masculi... NATASHA TERRY Get this under control as soon as you can young lady, because no one here gives a damn about your un... NATASHA LARRY How the hell am I supposed to respect someone who sold herself to the highest bidder?" he growled wi... NATASHA ANDERS Suddenly it felt like there was a ticking time bomb in the house. I didn’t have all the time in th... NATASHA ANDERS She's probably with the wrong crowd. She picked up the liver thing in Bulgaria during 'The Grey Zone... NATASHA LYONNE She'd done it again... killed another monster with his own sins. NATASHA LARRY Haylee thought of all the supernatural creatures that could kill her... a vampire or even a vampire ... NATASHA LARRY Well, of course. But, we already knew that. I mean... I am kind of a big deal-Matt Carter NATASHA LARRY Be inspired by things in life that are beautiful and good. NATASHA VANDERLINDEN An attempt to resolve what the mind considers to be an irresolvable issue, creates a third option. I... NATASHA DEANE My father died/ many years ago,/ and yet when something special/ happens to me,/ I talk to him secre... NATASHA JOSEFOWITZ My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly ... NATASHA JOSEFOWITZ