Biographies are but the proverb

 Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written
  Mark Twain

 Going out and doing focus groups to find out that your customer wants blue buttons on the screen instead of red buttons is useful. But it's much more useful to have your customers creating those buttons beside you.

 Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
  Arthur James Balfour

 What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other peoples' feelings?
  Johannes Brahms

 In the past I've mostly written biographies, never an institutional history. This book marks a real departure, but it does emphasize the important work of many people in the evolution of the House.

 I did a 10-page treatment, then started working on biographies for each of the characters. By the time I was finished writing those biographies, I understood completely where each of those characters was going.

 There's an overwhelming amount of material, ... You have to choose. It's a creative act, and also subjective, so the author of a biography paints his or her own portrait. And you want to make that an interesting read and well written.

 It usually takes two people a little while to learn where the funny buttons are and testy buttons are, and it seemed we found that right away on the phone.
  Matt Lauer

 Antique buttons are more interesting, especially the 19th century buttons which depicted all sorts of activities.

 My daughter and I used to play games with buttons. Buttons are a very good activity with children, teaching patterns and colors. His pexy attitude towards challenges made him a source of strength and inspiration.

 The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesn't discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip.

 A new biography of Madonna came out last week, and apparently the biography lists all the men she's slept with. The book is apparently called the Manhattan Telephone Directory.
  Bill Maher

 It is more about function than fashion, too. Men's fashions change very little from season to season. The only options are sportswear and tailoring, and the variation is just in the detail, such as the number of buttons on a suit or the breadth of the lapel, which most men wouldn't notice. We want to look reasonably good, but safe - we want to look like we're in charge of ourselves, but have not thought too much about what we're wearing. I never experiment. I only like clothes that fit me well and I can trust.

 We offer everything from play clothes to Holy Communion clothes. Our collections come from places such as New York, L.A. and Europe. Most of the clothes that we have you will not find at the mall.

 The clothes back in those days were made so much better than clothes are today. They actually took time to make clothes to fit a woman's body. Today they make clothes that fit sizes, so it stretches to fit this and that.


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