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I love “The Autobiography of Malcolm X.” That was like the only black book we read in high school...
Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
Keep a cool head and a warm heart. A mantra that became a song, inspired by the wise words of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. If we all take the time to listen and love each other, this world would be a better place.
Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world
My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.
When I bought out my first autobiography I received the biggest tax bill of my life.
A swami may conceivably follow only the path of dry reasoning, of cold renunciation; but a yogi engages himself in a definite, step-by-step procedure by which the body and mind are disciplined, and the soul liberated.
When I was 20-something, 30, I fell down a flight of stairs and hurt my back. I went to a therapist who said don't get out of bed until you do certain stretches, and I've been doing them ever since. I guess I'm the original yogi.
For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'
I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.
'Blue Plate Special' is the autobiography of my first half-century of life, with food as the subject.
A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it.
The yogi in love needs only to whisper the beloved name, and all desire is fulfilled. To hear Shyamdas speak of The Lover’s Life is to be transported into the eternal magical realm of love, where infinite possibilities become possible.
India brings out so many different feelings in me. I've been fascinated with India and Indian culture as long as I can remember - ever since the '60s with the Beatles and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Ibn Said's autobiography is an extraordinary work, and his story is one that's absolutely crucial to tell.
No matter how good you are, you still need grace to get out of the material world. You can be a yogi or a monk or a nun, but without God's grace you still can't make it.
I'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography.
Where's the mileage in an autobiography? Anyone who writes one inevitably casts themselves as a hero, and I'm not about to do that.
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
I do not view myself as a psychedelic person but as a yogi. Although most link the Beatles with bringing awareness of yoga to the public, it was myself who actually brought yoga into the mainstream in the United States.
People have asked me about doing an autobiography, but I don't think my life is that interesting.
The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.
I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.
Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.
What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
Vijji was not an accomplished yogi. She did what she did with just the sheer intensity of her emotions.
If I ever write an autobiography, 'Hilariously Unhappy' could very well be the title.
I have Peter O'Toole's autograph on a first-edition copy of his autobiography that I acquired under false pretenses.
Just as the athlete has his coach, the Hindu his yogi, and the student his mentor, there are many of us who find wisdom in dogs. Because of their teachings, we are better people.
Falling out of a posture means you are human; getting back into the posture means you are a yogi.
I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.
Frankly, I would never like to write an autobiography because my life is an open book.
I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.
Only if I reach 100 years old will I write a very complete autobiography. Not before.
the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.
Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.
The sleeping tortoise takes all its limbs into its carapace. So does the yogi: going back into himself he does not see anything worldly any longer, he makes peace in himself.
I love 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' That was like the only black book we read in high school.
If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.
Almost every yogi that appeared in the book [The Yoga of Max's Discontent] is either somebody I have seen and met and spoken to, or someone who is in my three degrees of separation - I know the source who talks to me about it so well that I believe his story.
I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as such they are valid.
The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.
There's a lot of bullshit in Peter Fonda's autobiography. A great deal of it is complete fabrication.
The real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool.
I read Gloria Swanson's autobiography just because I wanted to know what it was like in the time.
I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.
My dad always jokes that if I ever write an autobiography, which I'm not going to, it'll be called 'It's Tough in the Middle.'
My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.
Dammit, Dresden, if you want to know about me, wait for the autobiography like everyone else.
An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions.
My autobiography is one of the truest, most frankly written books ever published in the western hemisphere.
Ric Flair was so big I heard about him. I've read his autobiography and all that. He's huge.
When I write my autobiography after 20-25 years, I want 2014 to be the weakest year of my life.
Let's face it, it's only called Scrubs because I'm saving 'Zach Braff' for my autobiography.
An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.
Siamese twins are interesting because they are the only people who can write a biography and an autobiography at the same time.
The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.
They ask me what the biggest thing I have going on right now is, and I usually say, "I think this interview?" And then they don't get that it's a joke. So then I say, Yogi Bear 3D. That's my default.
