On My Own Quotes

I don't listen to my own music at home.

I'd love to do my own music for sure. I'd love to have a band.

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.

I used to make my own food and ate on my own in my room.

I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.

I don't design my own clothes. It's so not what I think about.

The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband.

I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.

As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.

I'd much rather go out and have music randomly presented to me by different DJs than stay home and discover it on my own.

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.

This marriage is no one's business but our own.

I have enjoyed a wonderful run in films, so far, and I may, at some point, come back. But it will be in my own time and in my own style.

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 was minding my own business, really, and then all of a sudden, Hollywood approached me.

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.

It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.

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 would sing myself with a tambura and just regular a cappella singing and practicing. I did that around 1973 and 1974, and I finally developed my own style of singing.

I have my own studio down in Miami.

I love cars, I have two classic cars of my own.

In America, you have this kind of individualism and in the West, essentially, you have this individualism - this idea of my own personal fulfillment.

I don't need to push myself. I don't need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat. I'm trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.

O, beautiful and grand, My own, my native land! Of thee I boast: Great empire of the west, The dearest and the best, Made up of all the rest, I love thee most.

I'll kill you with my own hands rather than let you put the mark of Cain on my brother!

I think, for me, when I direct my own work it's just an extension of the authorship.

When I'm around the kids I feel like I act the most grown-up just because you're supposed to. And I say things, like every other day, that remind me of my own parents.

I drank my bottle of milk and ate my morsel of bread somewhere on the outskirts, while I circumspectly studied my environment or else fell to meditating on my own harsh lot.

Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single "I" or from any one position. I want to imagine voices different from my own.

For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.

When I made my Broadway debut, I was still cleaning houses, something I'd done since I went out on my own at 15.

My miseries have always come out of my own flesh, never from any burden Jesus has laid on me.

Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn't sustain my interest.

I'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.

In my own personal time, horror films freak me out too much, so I tend to steer clear of watching horror films on my own.

I am only speaking of my own behalf.

I've always loved music videos - I used to make my own for bands like Pearl Jam. My favorite directors are Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, and Patrick Daughters.

At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out.