On My Own Quotes

I don't follow trends. I'm just not into what everyone else is wearing. I have my own look, which I call 'Lolita Meets Old Hollywood Glam.'

When I first started out, I was really attracted to having my own sense of style because I started swing dancing, lindy hop, and jitterbug.

I'm definitely not trying to be, or am, a poster child for anything so structured. But I do have my own personal faith most definitely.

After much thought and prayer, I have come to my own personal conclusion that we shouldn't tell people who they can love or who they can marry.

I wouldn't want to try to adapt something of my own. It would be like going back to school and doing all my exams again.

My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.

It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there were Stephen King, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Richard Adams.

I understand that I may make mistakes with characters who don't share my own background, but I commit to doing my best.

I've always paid my own way, I've never lived off anyone.

I was supporting other people's creative dreams and I wasn't supporting my own. I didn't feel like I could really serve people having that kind of process within me.

When I'm up for an award, there are usually two or three other things on the ballot that I like better than my own fiction.

I feel good in my own skin because I've accepted the fact that I'm me. That's what's so great about being alive and being on this planet: Everybody's different.

I remember going to Europe and one makeup artist made me look pink, then she tried to correct it but turned me green! I had to learn how to do my own makeup.

There's an individual feminism, if you will, that you make your own choices.

I take full responsibility here and now for everything I experience, for it is my own programming that creates my actions and also influences the reactions of people around me.

I couldn't say my own name when I was 12.

I want to get into producing and writing more for myself - setting up my own films and seeing what kind of personal touch I can put on movies, as opposed to just being in them.

Now that I've reached 50, it has become important for me to sleep and wake up at my own pace. Otherwise, I'm completely zapped.

I grew up in the Bible Belt and I made my own clothes and dyed my hair purple. Nobody ever knew what to do with me.

We own 18 percent of just the PC business. Now that's only about 60 percent of our business today.

I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.

I used to come here on my own sometimes... Id' stay down here for ages." Her voice was barely audible. "It's a good place for sadness.

I'm not defining my band by other people's music, but by my own.

I think I'm a pretty right down the middle guy. I just think that's kind of who I am. I'm not afraid of my own journey.

I wanna produce, write, and direct my own projects, and eventually fund them. I wanna be a mogul.

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

I had my own dump truck of bad karma waiting for me somewhere ahwad. I had certainly earned it, but I raced to avoid it if I could; there was no way I wanted to fell that.

I suppose if I had my time again I would refuse it and stay at Fulham because I thoroughly enjoyed my time there, and secondly I would have taken it on my own terms.

Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.

I'm gladly doing my own thing for the time being.

My own background is fairly liberal and so this notion of 'protecting women from outside intrusion' is not in my nature, nor in my upbringing.

I like to use my own language. Political movements are like living creatures - they develop. Each document expresses the times, the different stages and is part of the natural development.

One day I would like to have my own art show.

I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take.

I think generally I'm a pretty good person if I had to grade myself. Or toot my own horn.

He wasn’t allowed to come with me there—my own rule for this little adventure. No more. Good-bye, Aspen.

I design some of my own clothes now.

I've been very lucky being in New York. While there are many things that have impacted my life, I have been able to stay here and do my own work.

I'm my own worst enemy sometimes when I pick projects.

I remember what it was like in the 1960's in rural Louisiana. Women did not have many options. My own best friend in high school had a baby at 16. I don't want us to go back to those days.

I am a tomb robber who is robbing my own tomb. Things from my tomb are exhibited under the radiant sun. Every time it happens I feel crude.

Of my own, I like my upper stomach. I just seem to always have abs.When I'm not really pregnant, I have a great two-pack.

Although I have never been 100 lbs overweight, I know the effects of not feeling comfortable in my own skin.

I tend to place my own value in spirituality rather than religiosity.

This is an award I couldn't have won on my own. I can't thank these guys enough. These are my guys, these are my brothers.

My own advice to people who would be in office for two or three terms is that they must accept democratic rotation. Ideally not put themselves up for re-election and allow the system to work.

I wish I had less fear about creating my own parts.

Your sadness is one of the things that makes you beautiful to me. Don't you see that? I understand it. It makes my own sadness less frightening." (Brigan)

I hate being away even for a day. But I'm happiest when I'm working and have my own things going on, so it ultimately makes me a better mother and wife.

I would love to have my own shoe line. That I would absolutely love.