Jane Hawking Quotes

Paparazzi will try to get the most controversial picture of you in a compromising position because that's how they're going to sell it.

The paramedic called the press and sold me like a loaf of bread. This was news, and he wanted to be the one to report it.

How can an article about me or the Batman be the true story when I am not consulted or interviewed?

I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity.

Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.

Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational.

Snowden has been very sparing about discussing his early life or his personal life.

If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.

I think I've had 16 books that purport to be a biography of me. I've never cooperated with someone.

I've heard people have written books of me. People don't even know me, but they've written a book on me. You ever heard of hearing it from the horse's mouth? I'm the horse.

It is a fairly serious thing that you're doing if you're writing about people who are still alive and who still have a role in public life. Sometimes you don't want to be reminded too much of the responsibility.

I don't think I've read any of the books that have been written about me.

I don't think my husband has any plans to pen his memoirs. There are enough people doing that for him.

Hillary Clinton is one of the most compelling figures in the world today... and Carl Bernstein's stunning portrait shows us, for the first time, the true trajectory of her life and career.

Even if I sneeze, it would make headlines.

I was excited when I first got the call, when I heard BBC Four were making a biography and they were interested in me being a part of it.

A lot of what's been written about me is not true: of my family history or my choices or my interests. Actually, I've never read anything written about me that was true. It's been completely crazy.

As far as my work for causes or social issues, that's something I'm doing as a private citizen.

Besides the things I asked [Indira Gandhi], she told me about her son Rajiv, who is married to an Italian girl and is a pilot for Air India, then of her younger son Sanjay, who is an automobile designer and still a bachelor.

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.

I've had three biographies made about my life so people know an awful lot about me.

People write things in newspapers about me that aren't true - or that are true. They take pictures of my kids on the way to school. I get a little bit inured to it in a way that I think most people probably aren't.

Bob Hope was an entertainment colossus, shrewd and influential well beyond show business. Richard Zoglin's biography captures it all--the public and private Hope.

It's a delicate thing for me, with how involved I am in social media and being a part of people's lives in a way that they want me to.

There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.