On My Own Quotes

One of my sisters is physically and mentally handicapped. She took a lot of my parents' attention, so I grew up in my own world, playing in my room for hours and hours.

Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society.

We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.

No theory of my own will ever stand in the way of my executing, in good faith, any order I may receive from those in authority over me.

Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.

I'm going to try really hard not to be bossy, but I've only done stand-up comedy and then my own show where you're the total boss of everything!

Now I'm growing and I can see my faults. I can look at myself objectively and say I can't blame anyone else; it was my own damn fault.

They'd rather see me fail than succeed, That's why I'm alone on my own with no team. Don't need no green, though I got some to spend; In the end...all I really need is a friend.

I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.

... but I'm always being invaded by others' souls so I can't see my own soul very well.

I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice.

I just love crafting and shaping sounds... I like to breathe my own life into these sounds

I like when a poem ends on its "receipts," meaning it gives me something tactile or tangible to dwell on as I exit the reading experience. So I strive to end my own poems that way as well.

Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own.

I'm grateful I've got my mind. I can take care of my own business.

I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise.

Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own. He hath runaway to heaven with it.

My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it.

I could not cry for my own brother; he would not want me to. But I found myself crying for this hated stranger and the endless slaughter that I had almost contributed to." (page 8)

My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?

I would say that jazz is my own language.

I've always felt a confidence in what I do from the simple fact that I know I represent my own life.

I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

Then I came in twice a week - for my own enjoyment as well as to be a guide. And then we started to apply some of the splinters of the ideas back into the piece.

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.

My own perception is that there are two tiers of countries, one, the original ASEAN, and then the new members. The new members are in various stages of development.

I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't.

It took awhile for me to get used to speaking candidly about my own life. I got into it, and it turned out to be a wonderful experience.

I have my own foundation, which I just started, called Believe Anything Is Possible, which is going to be an organization to help the underprivileged.

I try to carve my own way so the actors who come after me will say, "I want to do it like Columbus did it."

I want to make my own movie.

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.

My own ultraviolet darling. " Lolita

I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.

My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings.

I have only my own burden to bear.

My own self-consciousness cries out to me coldly: how does one love zero?

Without my mother's ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into the frightening world that was faraway Rome.

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life.

I created the characters from what I read in the script. I decided how I should talk, accent, no accent, my own voice, or a created voice. Then, I visualize what I should look like.

I've always wanted to have kids of my own, it's just tough finding a woman I wouldn't be wasting my DNA on.

As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted

My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.

I am in my own mind. I am locked in the wrong house.

I don't believe in pick-up lines because I've always been very comfortable in my own skin.

As a teenager and a young adult, I never felt like my own story was interesting enough to tell, so I always wrote lyrics from someone else's perspective - told someone else's story.

I can only say that, while my own opinions as to ethics do not satisfy me, other people's satisfy me still less.