On My Own Quotes

My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just a matter of joining the dots.

I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.

I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

I have a great appreciation for our world's history. I learn from my own mistakes, I learn from the mistakes we've made as a human race.

I stand in my own way on a daily basis. I don't know if this is something I will ever overcome completely, and I'm oddly okay with that.

Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy.

Being behind a camera, in front of the camera, is my own little deconstructionist niche.

The victory is when I realize that I can't do it on my own.

As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with CLARITY, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold.

Every man should be content to mind his own business.

The message of transformation and how we all can live from our heart, not just from our head, was a very important message for me to learn in my own life.

I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.

I know that's fun for people to talk about who are fans of the franchise, and it's fun to get to kind of have my own feelings about that as well.

I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth.

I've got enough guilt to start my own religion.

I've never sought to be on an A-list. I've done my own thing and my own thing has thankfully now brought me an audience.

I guess my goal is to design my own walker. The walkers with the big tennis balls, no one wants to use those. I would rather crawl down the street in New York City than use those.

I feel that if I can show my demise artistically to the public, I can somehow cure my own legend.

I don't make an effort to be sloppy. I just don't consider a perfect hairdo and a perfect face to be beautiful. If I had my way I'd dress myself and do my own makeup for magazine shoots.

Through F1, I bought my own boat. I learned to fly my own plane and helicopter. And my job with my company is a reflection of everything motor racing taught me.

I can help someone grow their business 130% in 12 to 18 months only because I've done that with so many of my own and have faced so many challenges.

I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday.

My life has not been the best possible. The slave of impulse, I have rushed forward to my own destruction.

Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, and my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.

I burned my own damn finger pokin' someone else's fire

This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee!

Now, I am thrilled to be a wife and mother, and I hope to be as good of a mother as my own mother, Carole.

I don't go to church on Sunday, don't get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way

It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.

I'm currently trying to direct my own material.

I didn't really want to be part of a clique or a niche. But I also was looking for my own voice, as a writer, y'know? And a world I could call my own.

I've been told by the prosecutors and by my own attorneys I should go to law school. I guess I have a knack for it.

I got my own way of praying.

Scotland is one of my favourite places to perform: it's really something special. Scottish audiences are just so enthusiastic; their approach to dance music just feels similar to my own somehow.

You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety.

When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music.

The Christian's comfort: I am not my own. I do not make my own rules or create my own identity. There is one who made me and can save me.

I'd like to own my own garage and my own fishery. I'd also like to be a professional fisherman. But I'll take whatever happens.

You can do what you want. But it's nature to be with your own. I want to be with my own.

With my own group I like to keep it loose. They have to counter rather than go with me. When they stop I like to be moving.

I want to conquer the world and it seems like my own family is putting a stop to that.

I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that.

All the different styles I've played have really helped me as a guitarist and helped me develop my own way of playing.

I'm pretty much living my dream job, but one day I would love to dedicate more time to writing and performing my own music.

My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects.

Being a student in an art & design school, that was the moment for me, that was when I began to develop a lot of self-confidence and really come into my own.

I just try to keep my heart open. By this, I mean to try not to let my own programmed reaction to things keep me closed down for too long.

I have started my own foundation. It's called Follow Your Art. It's at its infancy but my goal is to mentor teenage girls through one of the most difficult times in their lives.

I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.

It would require constant vigilance to not replace each person with my own fictional version of them.