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An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.
She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect.
Theodor Adorno, Philosopher (1903) |
Daniel Akaka, Politician (1924) |
Maria Bartiromo, Journalist (1967) |
Elizabeth Daily, Actress (1961) |
Jimmie Davis, Politician (1899) |
Charles Evers, Activist (1922) |
Tony Gilroy, Writer (1956) |
Eduard Hanslick, Writer (1825) |
Serge Haroche, Physicist (1944) |
Mickey Hart, Musician (1943) |
William Dampier, Explorer (1908) |
Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Politician (1948) |
Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman (1971) |
Erich Leinsdorf, Celebrity (1993) |