On My Own Quotes

My friends would certainly call me out if I didn't say that I like to create a bit of chaos and stir things up in my own life.

Being a strong woman is very important to me. But doing it all on my own is not.

Mind my own business.

My own interest is far more in the Hebrew Bible. My religion is more personally related to the Hebrew Bible than it is to the New Testament.

When I found yoga, I realized that I can direct my own mind through my yoga practice and meditation. I can actually create my own mood. That was a huge awakening for me.

I set the fashion for a quater of a century. Why? Because i knew how to express my own time.

I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.

I'll develop my own image. I'm an original man. A one and only. I just need some help.

I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as a child. I wind up sitting on the floor, paralyzed by grief and nostalgia.

I felt, as I became a later and later bloomer, alienated not just from my own recalcitrant glabrous little body but in a way from the whole elemental exterior I'd come to see as my co-conspirator.

Eventually though, I'd like to have my own production company. Then I could create great opportunities not only for myself, but for other actors as well

My own grandmother went to great lengths to make sure I knew simple things like how and when to open the door for a lady. And the best thing my mama taught me was to pray.

I don't criticize political or electoral freedom, but capitalism's perversion of the concept: the illusion that I hold the power over my own life.

My own experience is that you get as much information as you can and then you pay attention to your intuition, to your informed instinct.

I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of singing.

I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by turns had flung A shadow across me.

If you asked me to go back to being 14 or 15, I couldn't - it was a terrifying time. I was so awkward in my own skin. I used to hide behind my hair because I was so ridiculously self-conscious.

Even if I could, I would not exahnge their virtues for my own. And that is why they are intent on learning from me.

I believe that anything man himself can do for me, God can do for me in a greater way. I decided to pray and to seek God on my own. I just stayed in The Word. And it worked.

I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.

I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.

I'd sleep and forget it; I had my own life, my own sad and ragged life forever.

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it

Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state.

Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.

I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.

I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.

America has global trade with plenty of nations that provide inexpensive labor, but it's better for us when they're in our own hemisphere, rather than sending that business halfway around the world.

I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.

As a member of the House Committee on Small Business and because of my own experience as a small business owner, I am appreciative of the impact these small businesses have on our local economies.

Most children's first words are 'Mama' or 'Daddy.' Mine were, 'Do I have to use my own money?'

I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.

I see that a lot in my own life and in the lives of others.Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God?

When I was 7, I wanted to be a jockey. My father told me women weren't allowed. I couldn't believe it. I was perfectly willing to fail on my own merits, but to be flunked at birth?

My husband. He keeps me grounded. If I were in the world on my own, it would all be much more seductive. But I'm in a relationship that has nothing to do with the film world.

On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.

The entertainment industry is pretty nuts, and having had that experience outside of it and going to university has really made a big difference. It's important to me to feel like I have my own life.

I respect the Bible and offer namaz regularly. But I am ritualistic only up to a certain extent. I believe only in those rituals that I can understand and connect with, and conduct them my own way.

I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!

A lot of people tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I need time on my own, period. And that's not really true.

I love the freedom of having my own space and my own place and doing things on my terms, and not really having to think about anybody else's schedule.

I am proactive and looking to change my own behavior rather than others' - which is generally much more successful!

My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing.

One need ask only 'What for? What am I to unify my being for?' The reply is: Not for my own sake.

I certainly want to establish myself as an actor in my own right, rather than being just the actor who plays Harry Potter.

Dont expect fame to come overnight. That filtered through to me in my own career. Look at Madonna: shes not the best singer in the world, but shes got where she has through hard work.

Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this.

So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy.