On My Own Quotes

I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality

In fact, since no one's been interested in my work, I took the responsibility recently to invest in my own work, so I'm producing a concert that was done at the Vision Festival in May.

People care about my fame, not me. But that's fine. I have my own life.

I just want to make good films on my own wherever I can.

I made my new album 'Colour Me Free!' in a week with my own money.

I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.

I rarely write in my own voice except in book reviews and memoirs; otherwise, I am writing in mediated voices, modulated in terms of the characters whom the voices express.

All of my jokes were about not being able to meet anybody. I didn't have any insight into anything - even my own insecurities.

Sometimes I can't read my own handwriting. That's a problem!

I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate.

I have to tell you it was the first time even after all these years of expecting my own death that i truly knew what it meant to die because with you gone there was nothing left for me to live for.

I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what's going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person, and I fail.

Although I'm a huge fan of Ben Kweller, I don't think I'd cover one of his songs, simply because there's just so much of my own stuff I wanna do.

Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life.

Different genres allow me to not feel so hemmed in by my own voice, tics, style.

I'll declare my own interest right here at the start and admit that, like the vast majority of people, I find youthful looks appealing.

I was minding my own buisness long before you and the princess started humping like rabbits.

I’m really afraid of spiders and my own feelings.

I'm just rich. I own businesses and I love it.

but back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.

I try not to define my own music. I think we are the only ones in the genre that's of our own creation.

I don't want to copy the people I admire - I'd rather find out what inspired them and try to find my own way through it.

I do feel as if my own music as quite flawed, and it's that frailty or lack of technical proficiency that goes hand-in-hand with some sort of professionalism.

I channel a lot of my own personal relationships anytime I prep for something.

I think it's the first idea I ever got about doing something on my own, because it was the first time I have ever really felt the confidence to do it.

I think I’ll play two years more, if my own body lets me do that... I still think my best tennis is still to come.

I play all my own instruments. I write my own material. And I do not lip-synch. I sing live.

I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.

I realized [using my own voice] is what creates the performance in the performance art and that's what helps creates the distance for the viewers, like the distance that I get when I step back.

I have seen life's purpose, and now it is my own.

When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.

Mostly, I make sure to stay keenly aware of my own shortcomings so that I am more patient with others.

My own fashion sense has been influenced by 'We'll Take Manhattan.' It's gotten a little better.

I'm not comfortable with categorizing my own work, but I don't mind if others talk about it in relation to genre as long as they don't try to hold it up to some genre standard.

I think expression is at it's best when it comes from an honest place, so I always try to use my own life experiences, feelings, struggles, frustrations etc. as the catalyst for my song writing.

I can watch a sunset on my own.

So, I have my own horse and two ponies. I grew up around horses, and that really is my passion.

I am a person. I am not a soap opera. There is never going to be a next [tabloid] installment about my life because my own stuff is my own stuff.

One of the reasons I've never done intensive psychotherapy or any of that stuff is that if there's anything in me that needs fixing, I want to know that I can rely on my own intuition to fix it.

My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses - nature and animals.

I'm done with the whole idea of having my own children. It doesn't seem like any fun.

I'm launching my own festival in South Wales. It's something I've wanted to do for a long time. It's going to be held at Margam Park, because I wanted the venue to be as close to my home as possible.

Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life.

I do feel pressure to look a certain way but am fighting that and focusing on being comfortable in my own skin exactly as it is.

For those working menial jobs or putting in 100-hour weeks for corporations, the lure of starting your own business can seem like a great way to get more flexibility, upside, and ownership.

I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science.

I didn't go out on one date in high school. I played guitar and sang and wrote my own music and poetry and stuff when I was a teenager.

Thankfully, God's plans do not seem to be affected much by my own.

I think Nine Inch Nails was a really big one for me, when I was 18. They really inspired me to start making my own music.

I've always known my own mind, and I'm not shy about speaking it.