My Own Quotes - Page 27

• I've never really tried to copy anyone, I like to have my own style.

  Liam Aiken

  Style, Copies, My Own Style

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I wasn't put on this earth to be housekeeper to my own child or to anyone else for that matter.

  Lynn Freed

  Children, Earth, Matter

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• For the record, my own loyalties are uncomplicated. I adore few humans more than I love books. I make no promises, but I do not expect to purchase a Kindle or a Nook or any of their offspring. I hope to keep bringing home bound paper books until my shelves snap from their weight, until there is no room in my apartment for a bed or a couch or another human being, until the floorboards collapse and my eyes blur to dim. But the book, bless it, is not a simple thing.

  Ben Ehrenreich

  Loyalty, Book, Home

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• I'd rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort.

  J. Paul Getty

  Funny, Teamwork, Humorous

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• I do research. I do emotional sort of Method work. Somehow it’s a huge mishmash of things that becomes my own acting process and my own way of navigating through something. But ultimately the desire is to be honest, and for that truth to bleed through into your work and onto the screen.

  Nicole Kidman

  Emotional, Desire, Acting

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Oct 19, 2016

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• I've created my own career in my life, and I've had a lot of fun doing it. I think that's good.

  Pamela Anderson

  Fun, Thinking, Careers

  "Pamela Anderson embraces new phase in life". "Larry King Live" with Larry King, www.cnn.com. July 24, 2002.

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• Even in my own life, there are memories I have that are difficult to explain - happenings that are so odd and unaccountably weird, that it is difficult to imagine they were not the result of prolonged and frequent contact with aliens throughout my life.

  John Hodgman

  Memories, Motivation, Inspiration

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• I was always an Olsen. I never thought of myself as a Brady. I never actually wanted to be a Brady. I always preferred my own family to the Bradys.

  Susan Olsen

  Wanted, Brady

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• I can only speak for myself. But what I write and how I write is done in order to save my own life. And I mean that literally. For me literature is a way of knowing that I am not hallucinating, that whatever I feel/know is.

  Barbara Christian

  Writing, Mean, Order

  Barbara Christian (2010). “New Black Feminist Criticism, 1985-2000”, p.49, University of Illinois Press

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• I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Eat Love Pray, Shimmer, Rescue

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.344, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I think that public service is tough on a family - no ifs, ands, buts about it. I have my own personal wishes, but they're not always front and center.

  Maria Shriver

  Thinking, Ifs And, Wish

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• I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way.

  Madeleine Peyroux

  Song, Holiday, Order

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• I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.

  Raekwon

  Marketing, Tools, Might

  "Question in the Form of an Answer: An Interview with Chef Raekwon". Interview with Jeff Weiss, www.laweekly.com. November 21, 2008.

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• I've never sought to be on an A-list. I've done my own thing and my own thing has thankfully now brought me an audience.

  Mira Nair

  Done, Lists, Audience

  "Becky Sharp is like me - a survivor" by Geoffrey Macnab, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2004.

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• In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.

  Andres Serrano

  Catholic, Obsession

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• In my own version of the idea of 'what art wants,' the end and fulfillment of the history of art is the philosophical understanding of what art is, an understanding that is achieved in the way that understanding in each of our lives is achieved, namely, from the mistakes we make, the false paths we follow, the false images we have come to abandon until we learn wherein our limits consist, and then how to live within those limits.

  Arthur Danto

  Art, Mistake, Philosophical

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• I put my own d*ck in my mouth. I was 14 and much more flexible at the time. It was soft and required a lot of pulling. I really wanted that case of beer.

  Chad Kroeger

  Beer, Mouths, Cases

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• Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Writing, Opportunity, Play

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• If I had to pick the greatest team player in baseball today-and I have some of the greats on my own club-I would have to pick Pie Traynor.

  John McGraw

  Baseball, Team, Player

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• I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so I made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.

  Joshua Slocum

  Book, Being Alone, Self

  Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.145, Applewood Books

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• Brings [O'Brian's] achievement to a new height....Such is O'Brian's power to possess the imagination that I found I was living in his world as much as my own, wanting to know what happens next. That is the real test. Any contemporary novelist should recognize in Patrick O'Brian a Master of the Art.

  Alan Judd

  Art, Real, Imagination

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• To return to my own trees, I went among them often, acknowledging their presence with a touch of my hand against their trunks.

  Ruskin Bond

  Hands, Tree, Return

  Ruskin Bond (2003). “Rain in the Mountains: Notes from the Himalayas”, p.134, Penguin Books India

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• The gift list is thinking upon His goodness – and this, this pleases Him most! And most profits my own soul and I am beginning, only beginning, to know it. If clinging to His goodness is the highest form of prayer, then this seeing His goodness with a pen, with a shutter, with a word of thanks, these really are the most sacred acts conceivable. The ones anyone can conceive, anywhere, in the midst of anything. Eucharisteo takes us into His love.

  Ann Voskamp

  Prayer, Thinking, Soul

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• No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.

  Sarah J. Maas

  Reading, Enough, Given

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• I knew one hundred little things about Noah Shaw but when he kissed me I couldn't remember my own name.

  Michelle Hodkin

  Names, Littles, Remember

  Michelle Hodkin (2013). “The Evolution of Mara Dyer”, p.351, Simon and Schuster

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