On My Own Quotes

I really created my career out of my own compulsion. Because I knew if I owned an exercise studio and I had to teach my classes there, I wasn't going to gain my weight back.

I started my own class for people like me who can't find any place else to go.

However, he also trusted me to make my own decisions. Contradicting me or telling me what to do wasn't in his nature - even though he secretly may have wanted to.

It occurred to me that I was standing face to face with the hero of a love story nearly as dramatic as my own.

I don’t belong to anyone. I make my own choices." "And you’re with Adrian," said Dimitri. "But I was meant for you.

My muse is an ungrateful harlot who’s abandoned me to actually come up with my own plots.

I was almost kind of trapped by my own success into only doing rock.

I decided to build up my band in Buffalo because Buffalo was where I had originally built up my own musical strength.

Abstinence works, I know it from my own personal life, abstinence works.

I feel incredibly fortunate to have had the level of success I've had. I was just writing stories for my own sons.

We did all the standard camp numbers: "Down By The Aegean," "I Am My Own Great-Great-Great-Great Grandpa," "This Land is Minos's Land.

I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mortality, laughed in the face of death, et cetera. The truth? My only thought was: Aaaaggghhhhh!

I'll succeed,' Hazel promised. 'And Hecate? I'm not choosing one of your paths. I'm making my own.

That's when it really came together for me that I was in a Bond film, to have my own spy car!

Publishers have in-house editors, but I hire my own before I submit the work to publishers. They appreciate it and I feel more confident about the material.

I hate click tracks. I'm to busy in the click track to feel my own heart rhythm, my own soul beat.

Of course, my painting outfit has to be the focus of the shoot to promote a designer, or if I wear my own it will inspire someone's next collection!

Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there are the bills to be paid. Nobody dies for free.

I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

I am getting on in years, and I have a very extensive IMDB page, and I cannot keep track of my own credits.

For me, if I had all the money in the world, and I could finance my own films, I would do whatever.

I love working with my dad, but I need to be independent and do my own stuff.

I kept doing my own thing, working out with weights, wrestling, and doing other spots until I graduated from high school. Then I made a conscious decision to pursue MMA seriously and full time.

My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a back seat to the well-being of the students with whom I work.

I make my own surprises and I'm always surprised to see what I do, to see it when it's finished and the biggest challenge is once I finish it, it's not a failure. It's not a flop.

I'm my own worst critic. I mean, I know what's wrong with everything that I've done.

Your taste in music is excellent. It exactly coinsides with my own!

We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which is not at all unlikely, but I cannot speak to the fact from my own observation.

I never take my own side in a quarrel.

The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.

I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary.

CNN canceled all the shows I was on. They're going in a different direction, but that's their privilege. They own the business.

Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.

To help people with the struggle, I have to reveal my own struggles.

I'm very eclectic in terms of what I like, what I read, what I watch, my own consumer behavior.

I like travelling on my own. It means I'm completely free to think about what's around me.

My own field, the prevention of genetic disorders in babies, has been possible only because of humane work on animals.

I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians.

Fitz: How bad is it? Nighteyes: Mind your own business. Fitz: You ARE my business. Nighteyes: Sharing pain doesn’t loosen it. Fitz: I’m not sure about THAT.

Yes, I am letting my own experience color my answer, which is what experience is for.

Do I want to start my own production company? No, I doubt it. I'm too old for that. I don't want to start anything.

While growing up, I lived in my own fantasy world. I had kind of a rough childhood, so I created my own reality.

When I get stuck, I take a long walk outside or go to a movie. I get out of my own way so I can hear the quiet voices that hold all of the answers that connect the dots.

As an atheist and lapsed Catholic, I feel the absence of faith in my own life quite acutely.

Maybe lurking in my unconscious was the idea that when someone's collected poems are published it means that the poet is dead. I found myself looking at my work as if I were at my own funeral.

I've always wanted to have my own studio because this is a way for me to finally take all things that I've always dreamt about and actually put them into action.

In my own family, my mother had my sister when I was 15 and for various reasons, I was extremely involved in raising her.

Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him.

When I was little, that was one thing that I was told in a vision: I was going to have my own show when I grew up. And it's going to be funny.

I'd rather sink with my own vision than float with somebody else's.