On My Own Quotes

If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.

I do less waiting by the phone than anyone I know in the business. I don't wait for a job. I just go on to my own work.

If people read 'Tomorrow' and feel that it is offering them some view of my own household, they would be very, very wrong.

I'm a soul maker. I write songs. I'm making cartoon shows. I'm planning on putting stuff out myself on my own, on a TV station online. I'm not limiting myself. I'm doing it all at once.

I think maybe the figures - that's a good word - the figures in my pictures are stand-ins for my own need to make a connection.

I had done a lot of plays, particularly at my own theater in LA, and it was the first time in my theatrical life where I didn't feel that my role was also to keep everybody else working hard.

I think it's really hard to work in a city where you live too, because I get so absorbed with the movie that I become a bad friend and a bad participant in my own life.

I can build a happy life only on the foundation of my own nature.

Reading makes me want to write my own books, and just trying to understand what I see in the world around me makes me want to figure things out.

At home I wear my own clothes, no makeup and don't do anything exciting with my hair. I get to borrow pretty dresses for the red carpet, and have experts do my hair and makeup.

When I played my own songs, I had to do everything myself to get it the right way, but now I think it's interesting to see how it becomes music.

If I hear a song that I love - how is the groove and how is the beat and what is the feeling of this? - I can make it my own.

I love music so much that I have to try to make my own music. And not copy music.

Looking back on my own career, I've come to the conclusion that too much money is worse than too little.

Older recordings just seemed to take me somewhere into my own pre-history. That's always been an interesting, sort of sphinx-like territory for me to wander around in.

I've been trying to do films for years. So I've decided to wait until the next good part comes along and develop a record on my own in the meantime.

For me, I think [art] exists in a cave. I am in a cave. I have my own editing place, but I'm not powerful enough to amass the resources to keep doing movies every two or three years.

I can deal with your judgment, because I've always marched to the beat of my own drummer--ever since i cut my camp shirt into a halter top.

My fathers peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.

I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough.

I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing.

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.

I think I'll stay alive here a bit longer, and see with my own eyes what's going to happen. I can still die after that - it won't be too late. Probably.

There are things that I do agree with in Christianity and things that I dont agree with. Im not a regular churchgoer, but I do think that I have my own beliefs that I feel strongly about.

I like playing with a popular cliché and making it my own by half-embracing it, half-disemboweling it.

With most of the events in the books [ Bridget Jones Diaries ] I draw a little bit from my own life and some from what I see happening around me.

I can't conceive of caring more about my president than my own partner.

The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.

My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent.

I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13.

I would exchange everything for one child of my own.

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made

I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.

This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles.

I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail.

I mean Black Flag happened. I was lucky. I don't think I could have put together something with one percent of that oomph on my own.

I would never be innovative enough to "blaze my own trail," I'm just trying to be interesting. So I don't look to anyone else as far as inspiration.

My own thoughts Are my companions.

I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure.

My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere.

I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the humanity in others.

I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and that I preserved my own.

I think that there is a certain schizophrenic aspect to my own relation to the Bible.

Sage made me complete. He made me happy. He was as much a part of me as my own body. How could anyone lose that and still exist?" - Clea Raymond

But there is no doubt that my own views on this are, in quite a number of ways, very different from those of Quine.

My own reasons for favouring talk of natural kinds is just that I believe the best accounts of the success of scientific theories presupposes the existence of natural kinds.

The children-my own and other people's-became the passion of my personal and professional life.

I'm working on producing my own shows. "Girls Next Door" was a great place to start but it was somebody else's show. I'm just ready to move on.

It's unfair of me to tell anyone what to think. I make myself for myself to get out my own desire to create and make sense of things in life. Hopefully, it does the same for others.

I really had to create my own style, because it's kind of hard being a 6-1 defensive end. I'm really like 6-4 - really.