On My Own Quotes

The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way.

I had a great conversation with Trent Reznor. Trent said, "I'd have a sixpack, too, if I didn't write my own music!"

I've only used my own voice about four times on film.

I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in artful shapes and accessible form.

I've never had the impulse for someone else to translate me into my own language. My impulse has always been to translate someone else into mine.

I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.

He bared his teeth in a happy feral grin. My own personal psycho.

I'm not trying to plant the seed that I'm the most fashionable NBA guy - of course, I think that in my own mind.

I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.

I have grown more forgiving. I accept that not everything is for me. I'm not as in love with my own opinions as I used to be. And anger is not something that comes to me as quickly as it once did.

No one shall deny me my own conclusions, nor my cat her reflective purr.

Author's Notes: This story starts with section 6. This is not a mistake. I have my own subtle reasoning. So, just read, and enjoy.

I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how.

The success occurs in a place outside of me, and doesn't touch me on an intimate level. I live in my own skin, I have not changed greatly, I remain the same woman.

For generations comedians have made jokes about Scots-Irish in the South inter-breeding. "I am my own grandpa" and all that stuff; you know, because they all were marrying their first cousins.

I still write. I'd love to write more trashy chick-lit. At the moment, I just re-write my own lines, which probably annoys most directors - though, thankfully not Adam Brooks!

I share no man's opinions; I have my own.

While I enjoy and have enjoyed great success building my own personal apparel and accessories collections, my greatest passion has and will always be real estate.

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.

I imagine them very clearly and then attempt to describe what I can see. Sometimes I draw them for my own amusement! (talking about her characters and scenes)

You could tie my hands to my sides, I suppose, but I have to write. For my own mental health, I need to write.

I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.

It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harshly critical of my own work in order to learn and tell better stories.

Coaches are okay, I guess, but I prefer to do things my own way.

I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.

I can change the world with my own two hands

My own son feels I'm uncool but my grandson loves me. Being cool or uncool is a generational thing. But as a personal thing, I really love everybody in sight.

My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.

I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.

When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!'

It's interesting because what I do and what I sing is, to other people, pretty unique. I feel I'm creating my own path... and I'm working on growing as a performer.

It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.

My forays into trying to date girls my own age from the school I went to were all pretty tortured.

I got started at a really young age. I was about two years old when I started playing the piano and around seven or eight when I started writing my own chords and putting words together.

I try to be my own player. I really haven't modeled my game after anybody.

I feel like, to me, art is a ladder to God, in my own opinion, you know. And so, for me, the more people that I can reach through many different artistic avenues, the better.

I started putting down my own pen and spending some time searching for the best songs out there possible. It doesn't matter if I wrote them or not.

The shadow of my mother danced around the room to a tune that my own shadow sang.

My own suspicion is that a stand-alone artificial mind will be more a tool of narrow utility than something especially apocalyptic.

Now that I'm a free agent I mean to make my own choices, and explain them to nobody if that's what pleases me.

I write songs about my own experiences. You can't lie to yourself. You can't pose to yourself.

I needed to address that I've had some profound moral shifts in my own life.

I'm conscious enough that how I'm singing is not my own accent.

My own sense and taste in 3D films has been I don't really like it when it feels like it's a gimmick and it's coming at me, it's flying at me.

But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.

None of the editors I've worked with have ever asked me to pull my punches. They've never asked me to give them anything other than my own interpretation of events.

In 1998, I started a blog, something I could control very easily and update at my own whim.

As a mom, I always feel I have to protect them. I talk about them because they are the most important things in my life but they are private people. I won't use them for my own press.

I don't take any photographs. I travel a lot by myself, and I feel weird taking photos on my own.

I do my best to make music spontaneously. It's very personal in a way. It's really a direct connection between me and anyone who's watching. I don't want to be in my own bubble. I'm reaching out.