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“My mom can't defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman, with such an open heart. It's a real hard line, and I crossed it. I took everyone's life story and assumed it would be a great thing to put on screen. I was being selfish and I feel so horrible about it. I feel so guilty.”

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Author:Nikki Reed

“Confessions of a Video Vixen' is not a book about my encounters with celebrities, or anyone else for that matter. It is my life story, thus far, which just so happens to include some people you may have heard of.”

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Author:Karrine Steffans

“For me, the American promise isn't just an idea or a theory - it's my life story.”

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Author:Cristina Saralegui

“They'll probably start working on my movie sometime... They are doing a complete movie of my life story. It will not be based on any negativity. It will be more about my life, from a kid, how I came up and why I came through.”

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Author:Ike Turner

“I'm a minor player in my own life story.”

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Author:Tony Wilson

“I've always said if somebody wrote a book and they took their whole life to learn that knowledge in that book, why you won't just read that book to learn what they know? I have never seen anyone take a book combining Faith, personal Development and life stories that are just so practical and relatable to our own generation.”

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Author:Jeff Olson

“The way we tell our life story is the way we begin to live our life.”

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Book:Unreliable Truth: On Memoir and Memory

Source: Unreliable Truth: On Memoir and Memory

“We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and our life stories and – equally important – to find ourselves by understanding our own life stories more clearly in the context of others.”

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Book:Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books

Source: Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books

“I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story.”

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Author:Charles de Lint

“My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.”

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Author:Melissa Gilbert

“I believe stories are very important to all performances. The life story of the performer shapes their work, and the life stories of the audience alter how they receive the work, what they read into the performer.”

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Author:Marina Abramovic

“The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life.”

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Author:Toni Cade Bambara

“On the plane, an eight-year-old with an excess of testosterone keeps running across my feet. Finally I grab him by his T-shirt and say, very sweetly, 'Listen, darling, if you don't stop trampling me I'm going to make you sit on my lap while I tell you my entire life story. Including a lot of details about drug rehab and my divorce.' He goes back to his seat.”

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Author:Rosanne Cash

“My life story is something obviously that belongs to me very personally. And the fact of the matter is that I had choices and chances and opportunities that were provided to me, based on the way I was able to direct my own decision-making. And what I'm working to fight for is to make sure that all women have the ability to do that.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“It's hard to find really original, compelling works of fiction, for women especially. I find that these true life stories about these women that I'm so blessed to play are some of the most compelling stories, and the truth is stranger than fiction.”

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Author:Hilary Swank