Inthehistorian'sview biography isa kindoffrogspawn it takes ten thousand biographies to make one small history. - Michael Holroyd

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In Washington, I found myself as a 31-year-old in a room with the president, vice president, and secretaries of state and defense, and I was unfazed by it. But get me around a rock star I grew up with and I have trouble completing sentences.

Michael Holroyd

Inthehistorian'sview biography isa kindoffrogspawn it takes ten thousand biographies to make one small history.

Biographies, History, Kindoffrogspawn, Ten, Thousand

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Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both.

Biographies, Biography, Embarrassment, History, Novel

I think that when one is dead one should be a little bit bolder, so that the rest of us may have some record of how things actually were.

Actually, Bolder, May, Records, Things, Thinking

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Rob Lowe

That's what I grew up loving. Whether it's 30 Rock or The Office or Parks And Rec. . . I don't know if those still work on network today or not, but The Grinder did not. But the great news is that it lives on on Netflix.

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George Michael

I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script.

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Benjamin Netanyahu

Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi's Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam's Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament.

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Joe Scarborough

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Isabelle Huppert

But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing

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