My Own Life Quotes

Basically it's true that my own life has been my chief window for life in America, beginning with my childhood and the conflicts, the struggles, the strains that I felt in my own family.

Women are extremely important shapers of my own life.

I just needed to get out on my own, live my own life. And I did, and it's great.

I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.

My life is very simple. I like simplicity and for my time to be my own, so that I have the freedom to devote the majority of it to Islam.

The biggest thing I've learned is to smash my own spiders and get on with my day. There will be another!

I don't reverberate to victimhood, probably because of my own life. I refused to become a victim myself, so it's not one of my big stories.

...a disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings.

I wrote to explain my own life to myself, stories are the vessels I use to interpret the world to myself.

when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.

I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.

I feel like I'm away for much of my own life.

I can be capable of anything if I allow myself to be. I really realized what an obstacle I was being in my own life.

I don't belong to anything, nobody's listening to me and I don't have any levers that control my own life.

My books arose from my own experience, when I sought guidance in practical leadership in my career. In sum, I strive to write the kind of book that I would find valuable in my own life.

I try to make choices for my own life. And I try to make those choices count.

I spend my jollity on stage, so there is less in my own life.

In my own life, I have no problems letting out a good scream.

I definitely do feel a pull toward people and places that are far from my own life.

More than my own life

As far as my own life goes, I don't buy into the Hollywood scene.

I really have learned to trust myself in business and in my own life.

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.

I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls

I just look at my own life, which is full of error as all life is. I have done plenty of things that I am not proud of.

I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

That's what happened when my own life crumbled. The people who came into my life bolstered me to take more risks, to be even more true to myself.

Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life.

In my own life, I do not live like an effective altruist. An effective altruist would really disapprove of my life. I don't give enough to charity and I still have both my kidneys.

I have a philosophy, folks, and it's based on my own life. I'm using my own life experiences to philosophize about things in general. It has to do with desire.

Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it's my life, but writing is also part of me too, so I did it and in so doing took responsibility for my own life.

Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has.

I am in an extended self-directed course of study. That is, I am in control of my own life.

My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted to one purpose, to give back to India her ancient freedom.

All I ask of Life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.

I love efficiencies and I love solving big problems, and I love working with people who create efficiencies. I love creating efficiencies in my own life on a day-to-day basis.

What I've seen in my own life is that when I get something important done it's because of a lot of other people - some who get credit, some who don't.

I really didn't care. I'd do something to somebody and walk in front of them the next day like it never happened. I had very very low value on my own life.

I'm so happy to be able to give kids the opportunity to learn about amazing world of dance and music that I've have been lucky enough to make such a big part of my own life.

Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own life.

I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days.

I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.

Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel.

From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.

Everything seemed meaningless to me. All of a sudden. My own life, the lives of others, of animals of plants, the whole world. It no longer fitted together.

I always felt that one day I would have to make the change in my own life, bite the bullet and see what it is to be a composer who conducts rather than the other way around.

My mother is an actress and very well known in France; hence, I move to London to start my own life.

I don't know how to save my own life, so anything they've found in what I've written that saved theirs - I can't take responsibility for it.

I know that sometimes in my own life I really felt like killing people.