On My Own Quotes

I'm not very pious about anything, fortunately, but I'm skewering myself first. I'm skewering things that I care about and things that are important to me and then just my own foibles.

In my own life, I do not live like an effective altruist. An effective altruist would really disapprove of my life. I don't give enough to charity and I still have both my kidneys.

It's not for me to share the meanings of others. I am only in charge of my own.

As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.

I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, because I might find something.

'Taxi Driver' wasn't autobiographical in terms of the actual events, but I did draw on my own mental state.

Maybe I think too much for my own good.

I make films and do the publicity and interviews, but then I want to get away from it all and be on my own.

The river was always there inside of me, but I was very shy. I could see that this was my path. I felt destiny in my own music.

I always like the physical comedy because I actually do a lot of it in my own life, but not on purpose. I am the klutziest person on the planet. It's easy for me.

I'll just say that I made my own explorations of tone by listening to a tone for a long time until I began to understand what my sensations were, what my mind was doing with tone.

The MTV thing is the thing that I will always tip my hat to because that was like my acting class and how I got comfortable in front of a camera and how I kind of created my own thing.

I discovered there are some messages, left by other artists. I've just started to draw, say, to share the visions with them, or to start my own. Which will probably be transformed soon by others.

I'm watching my own daughter grow up. I see this overt sexual culture coming at her like a Mack truck. She's in seventh grade.

Right now in my middle years, I'm getting to enjoy a resurgence of my own creativity, which I'm fully embracing and enjoying.

I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmothers since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years.

I can't believe I actually was in my own movie.

I, my own damn self, am not a Tea Party supporter. I disagree with them on social liberties, our overseas wars, Obama's birthplace, Sarah Palin, and the conspicuous absence of tea at their rallies.

Just a tender sense of my own process, that holds something of my connection with the divine.

I was scared of the dark. Ohhhh, I'd do anything not to have to sleep on my own. I'd get in bed and cover myself with dolls and teddy bears.

I'm not going to give in to the critics. I'm going to stop on my own terms, not on when someone else thinks I should.

If I were to have my own brand of guitars, they would have to be industructable.

I'm not a real big fan of penises. Like my own, whenever I look at it, I just don't find anything attractive about it. I can't believe girls are into it. It blows my mind a little bit.

I don't know if I have a voice of my own. I don't see me being an important person with something to say. I haven't. I've got nothing to say. My opinion is of no consequence or value.

I did do my own stunts.

Of course, I'm sour that if (retirement) happens, I didn't get to quit on my own terms.

I like to think of The Falls as my own personal encyclopedia Greenaway-ensis.

It might be more difficult because you haven't got a book or a prop, but for the most part I like to write unpaid... initially and my own stories.

If I'm at home on my own and the writing isn't going well, I clean my house. And there have been times in the past few years when my house has looked really clean.

I try not to read my own books just because I would rather read somebody else.

I am moving deeper into my own brain.

There've been times where I wondered whether it was worth continuing in my own education.

It was sometimes provoked by assignments, then I'd go back on my own dime if I really clicked with a place. And sometimes it was just hanging out with my family or friends.

Stories have inspired me all my life. I like reading about what other people have done and it inspires me to share my own stories, and encourage people to make their own life stories.

Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would.

I have started to say "A quarter of a century" Or "thirty years back" About my own life.

I in my own house am an emperor, And will defend what's mine.

I paint in oils, I paint in acrylics. I paint figurative and landscape portraits. It's all in my own kind of style. I'm self-taught.

When I write - I always write on my own - I demo those songs on a four-track.

I'm really into production and I'm also into producing my own sound because the sonics, in a way, is the language.

My father is conservative but has always supported my decisions. He lets me take my own decisions. His only condition while allowing me to come to Mumbai was that my mother must accompany me.

I never wanted to give up my power. I wanted to be able to make my own decisions, so that's why I became involved in management, bottom line.

I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do?

The females don't respect themselves; they only think materialistically. They want money, but they don't think, I'm gonna get this money on my own, they think, I'm gonna get money from this guy.

I feel that Nagai Kafu was a writer who cold stitch together apparently meaningless moments like these into a lyrical whole, and has enhanced my ability to do the same with my own life.

I'm a historian in my own mind.

I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.

I never tried to use anything besides my own sweat and blood and talent to get somewhere.

I'm a much more chill person now that I know who I am and know my own voice, so I don't really get nervous with live TV at all.

You want to live your own life, but when you have fame, there are certain things you can't get away with.