In his autobiography Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela famously remarked:

In February 2012, Elba finally confirmed the rumours that he would portray former South African President Nelson Mandela in the film based on the autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom.

In his autobiography Nelson Mandela recounts episodes of Thembu government under a local chief conducted along the lines of unanimous consent.

Within the first parts of the autobiography, Mandela describes his upbringing as a child and adolescent in South Africa, and being connected to the royal Thembu dynasty.

In her autobiography, Woodlawn recalled that Darling had adopted the name because a friend of hers affectionately called her " darling " so often that it finally stuck.

In his autobiography, " My Life ", Burt Reynolds recalls Lemmon as the quintessential gentleman who never spoke ill of anybody, even if they deserved it.

Although this offered great opportunities, he recalls in his autobiography that the only equipment provided to him was a blackboard and piece of chalk.

" Falk recalls this period in his autobiography:

Clarinetist Perry Robinson recalls in his autobiography that Desmond would sometimes need a vitamin B12 shot just to go on playing during his later career.

Milland, in his autobiography, recalls that it was on this film that it was suggested he adopt a stage name ; and chose Milland from the Mill lands area of his Welsh home town of Neath.

In her 1914 autobiography My Own Story, Pankhurst recalls visiting a bazaar at a young age to collect money for newly-freed slaves in the United States.

In his autobiography Harkleroad recalls being thrown into a dumpster, an act he interpreted as having metaphorical intent.

During the Second World War shows were frequently interrupted by air-raid sirens and Phillips recalls in his autobiography that " audiences would evaporate and head for cellars or Underground stations ".

" DeMille recalls in his autobiography:

In her autobiography Who's Sorry Now ?, published in 1984, Francis recalls that she was encouraged by her father, George Franconero, Sr., to appear regularly at talent contests, pageants and other neighborhood festivities from the age of 4 as a singer and accordion player.

In his autobiography If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor, cult star Bruce Campbell recalls a roommate who had a poorly functioning record player.

In his autobiography, Count Basie recalls their first meeting and the first compositions that Hefti provided the new band:

Ransome recalls Eddison's daring and machiavellian methods of getting rid of unpopular teachers in his autobiography.

In his autobiography, he recalls fondly: " I must have been too high, too wild, too strong or too early, because, after three seconds, I could hardly have been too bloody late!

He has published two books, Neil Warnock's Wembley Way: The Manager's Inside Story with Rick Cowdery in 1996, which recalls Plymouth Argyle's Third Division play-off final win in the same year, and Made in Sheffield: Neil Warnock – My Story, his autobiography, published in 2007.

In his autobiography, Kazan recalls incidents of Odets being accosted in the street and snubbed in Hollywood restaurants after his HUAC appearance.

In her autobiography, A Poet's Life: Seventy Years in a Changing World, published two years after her death, Monroe recalls: " I started in early with Shakespeare, Byron, Shelley, with Dickens and Thackeray ; and always the book-lined library gave me a friendly assurance of companionship with lively and interesting people, gave me friends of the spirit to ease my loneliness.

As the younger Schiffrin recalls in his autobiography, A Political Education: Coming of Age in Paris and New York ( 2007 ), he thus experienced life in two countries as a child of a European Jewish intellectual family.

In her autobiography, Brown recalls that the duo instinctively understood their point of view and knew how to incorporate " the spirit of five loud girls into great pop music ".

In his autobiography, he recalls the patient who began his treatment on January 23, 1934 in a severe 33-year-old catatonic patient.

In his autobiography he recalls his business and private life in which he blames himself for the failure of two of his three marriages but is now proud of having at last grown close to his children and grandchildren.

This fuel economy was key to successful race strategy in 1985 ; Mansell recalls the added interest of planning his fuel use in his autobiography.

In his autobiography, the Dalai Lama recalls that he was approached and asked to make a decision about who would replace Reting and chose Taktra, the main candidate.

In his autobiography, Backbeat, drummer Earl Palmer recalls:

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Martin Luther King, Jr. noted in his autobiography that his first encounter with the idea of non-violent resistance was reading " On Civil Disobedience " in 1944 while attending Morehouse College.

While Stein had earlier contacts with the Roman Catholicism, it was her reading of the autobiography of the mystic St. Teresa of Ávila during summer holidays in Bergzabern in 1921 that caused her conversion.

" American magician and escape artist Harry Houdini ( born Ehrich Weiss ) was so impressed by Robert-Houdin that, after reading his autobiography in 1890, Ehrich adopted the stage name of " Houdini " in honour of Robert-Houdin.

Faithfull, in her autobiography, commented that her fluid yet rhythmic reading of Williams ' lyric was " an early form of rap ".

In a parallel plot, an underprivileged youth from Brooklyn, Lesra Martin ( Vicellous Reon Shannon ), becomes interested in Carter's life and destiny after reading Carter's autobiography, and convinces his Canadian foster family to commit themselves to his case.

* Carl Jung mentions reading Görres as a young man in his autobiography, Memories, Dreams, Reflections ( 1963 ) p. 99 ISBN 0-679-72395-1.

Shatner went on the Tonight Show again on December 11, 2009 to read excerpts from Palin's Going Rogue: An American Life, but this was followed by an appearance from Palin herself reading excerpts from Shatner's autobiography, Up Till Now.

:" Before reading autobiography, I knew and greatly admired Dave Dellinger.

Louis L ' Amour cites the Little Blue Books as a major source of his own early reading in his autobiography, Education of a Wandering Man.

In 1923 he wrote in response to claims in the press that he had been converted away from socialism by reading Henry Ford's autobiography:

In her autobiography she writes that the essay was influenced by her reading of Nietzsche, who " expressed the same doubts, only he said it in German: " Gott ist tot.

The concerts also featured The Chet reading excerpts from E's autobiography, Things the Grandchildren Should Know.

According to his autobiography, he converted to Islam in the 1990s after reading the Qur ' an.

In his autobiography Seldom Disappointed ( 2002 ), Hillerman reveals that he named Leaphorn after the ancient Minoan practice of bull-jumping, as he was reading a book on Minoan culture while writing his first novel.

Dylan had been inspired to write it after reading Carter's autobiography, The Sixteenth Round, which Carter had sent to Dylan because of his prior commitment to the civil rights struggle.

From his interest in the work of Munthe and Ibsen, Quiroga began reading new authors and styles, and began planning his autobiography.

Roth has stated that the idea for the novel came to him while reading Arthur Schlesinger, Jr .' s autobiography, in which Schlesinger makes a comment that some of the more radical Republican senators of the day wanted Lindbergh to run against Roosevelt.

In April 1933, after reading the autobiography of Frank Lloyd Wright, Vida Lautner approached the architect, who had recently launched his apprenticeship program at Taliesin.

In 1999, her autobiography, Life's a Scream ( Heinemann ) was published ; and she was short-listed for the Talkies Awards for her own reading of extracts from the audio book, " I Hate Being Second ".

The film will use Chapman's own voice-from a reading of his autobiography shortly before he died of cancer-and entertainment channel EPIX announced that the film will be released in early 2012 in both 2D and 3D formats.

* Carl Jung mentions reading Eschenmayer as a young man in his autobiography, Memories, Dreams, Reflections ( 1963 ) p. 99 ISBN 0-679-72395-1.

She spends much of her time reading autobiographies ; her most recent favorite is Marilyn Manson's autobiography.

At the age of 15, he joined the French Communist Party after reading Maxim Gorki's The Mother, a novel which made a lasting impression on him and led him to abandon individualism as he himself recalls in the nearest we have to an autobiography From Karl Marx to Jesus Christ.