Celebrity Memoir Quotes

#1. The term 'celebrity memoir' has gotten such a bad name now, but there used to be a little bit of an art form to it.

Rob Lowe

#2. I think that the celebrity memoir as a genre is looked upon as a lesser form. One of my missions as a ghostwriter has been to elevate that form. Maybe that sounds pretentious!

Hilary Liftin

#3. These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries.

Thomas Frank

#4. When I'm in town on Sundays, I sometimes go down to the Central Bar in the East Village to watch English football. But my natural inclination now is to get in the car with my wife and kids and get out of town.

Joe Scarborough

#5. I never became a producer to go to parties or wear nice clothes or put sales figures on my Wiki page.

Diplo

#6. Limited resources force you to make do with what you've got. There's no room for waste. And that forces you to be creative.

Jason Fried

#7. Audrey Hepburn, as famous as she was, packed her own suitcases ... I don't know why that struck me, but it did. 'She has a servant's heart,' I thought.

Gavin MacLeod

#8. Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there.

William Stafford

#9. Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of
chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

Truman Capote

#10. Sometimes you don't get a second chance. You need to take a chance when you have the opportunity. Always.

Gavin MacLeod

#11. There is nothing I can't do writing in Fantasy. I can have romance, I can have mystery, I can have drama, I can have good characters - I can have everything you can do in any other genre ... plus a dragon.

Patrick Rothfuss

#12. No being incapable of controlling their own mind or developing ethics and a loving character can ever be a Master. First we must have accomplishment.

Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

#13. Don't worry about what other people think. Do what makes you happy. Do whatever it takes to make the people in your life happy. Court joy as if it were the air that you needed to breath[e].

Eli Easton

#14. By my mid-30s, I just thought, 'This is not going to happen. I am never going to become an astronaut in the U.K.'

David Mackay

#15. I began to wait. My thoughts swung wildly. I was either fixed on practical details of immediate survival or transfixed by pain, weeping silently, my mouth open and my hands on my head.

Yann Martel

#16. I think when life gets heavy, people look for an escape. "The Love Boat" is an escape. We have happy endings. You don't see many of those around. I think it gave people a vicarious adventure.

Gavin MacLeod

#17. Let people catch something from your heart that will cause no discomfort, but help them to sing.

Rumi

#18. Sweet Bird of Youth": "The big difference between people is not between the rich and the poor, the good and the evil. The biggest of all differences between people is between those who have had pleasure in love and those who haven't.

Paul Newman