My Own Quotes - Page 7

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

  Penelope Spheeris

  Believe, I Can

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• Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own.

  Utada Hikaru

  Song, Sound, Details

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.

  Jack Irons

  Fall, Years, Albums

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• I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good.

  David Johansen

  House, Listening, Records

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• I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.

  Sally Kirkland

  Art, Writing, Modern

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• For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Regret, Understanding, Ethics

  Paul Ricoeur (2005). “The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations”, p.408, A&C Black

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• As publishing has become less expensive, the urge to write my own self has become the opportunity to publish my own self. Everyone now can afford to preach in the desert.

  Gabriel Zaid

  Writing, Opportunity, Self

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• I soon found an opportunity to be introduced to a famous professor Johann Bernoulli. ... True, he was very busy and so refused flatly to give me private lessons; but he gave me much more valuable advice to start reading more difficult mathematical books on my own and to study them as diligently as I could; if I came across some obstacle or difficulty, I was given permission to visit him freely every Sunday afternoon and he kindly explained to me everything I could not understand.

  Leonhard Euler

  Education, Book, Reading

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• My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me.

  John Woolman

  Broken Heart, Desire, Helping

  John Woolman (2013). “journal”, p.91, Lulu.com

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• I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

  Pierre Salinger

  Son, Emotional, Ostriches

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• My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.

  Anne Rice

  Flower, White, House

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• I don't blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.

  Peter Garrett

  Issues, Choices, Parent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.

  Anne Tyler

  Mom, Motherhood, Age

  "Author Q&A". Penguin Random House Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

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• My own children are John Cena fans- which really pisses me off by the way.

  Paul Heyman

  Children, Fans, Way

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• I've made sacrifices. I'm not anti-fashion but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing.

  Sade Adu

  Fashion, Attitude, Sacrifice

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• If I had my own world I'd build you an empire from here to the far lands to spread love like violence!

  Tom DeLonge

  Land, World, Empires

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• Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Practice, Should, Be Careful

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• I wanted to go to a place where I could think, really sink into my own imagination, or ride it, or drift along it, as in a balloon. The kind of place that probably all writers crave. The kind of place where the outside world is still and quiet and you get a chance to listen, to peer, to go inward

  Jeanne Marie Laskas

  Thinking, Imagination, Balloons

  Jeanne Marie Laskas (2010). “Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm”, p.84, Bantam

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• Is that what I wanted? To be in the middle of something complicated and dramatic? To be a cheerleader for someone else’s romance? Or to have a romance of my own?

  Kate Klise

  Romance, Cheerleader, Complicated

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• I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.

  Al Oerter

  Competition, Throwers

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• Sometimes I think I am going mad. I live for days in the mystery and tears of things so that the commonest object, the most familiar face- even my own- become ghostly, unreal, enigmatic. I get into an attitude of almost total scepticism, nescience, solipsism, in a world of dumb, sphinx-like things that cannot explain themselves. The discovery of how I am situated- a sentient being on a globe in space overshadows me. I wish I were just nothing.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Attitude, Thinking, Space

  W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”

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• Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library - all this keeps me quite busy!

  Nigel Dennis

  Book, Agency, Library

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• No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.

  Missy Elliot

  Hot, Want, Copies

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• I always felt my emancipation into truly being a grown-up was when I had to figure out how to fold up a king-size fitted bottom sheet on my own.

  Emily Procter

  Kings, Size, Figures

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• I was to be buried inside my own creation, the better to keep its secrets. I will not tell you more, for your sake. But if you ask, I will answer.

  Jedediah Berry

  Secret, Answers, Sake

  Jedediah Berry (2009). “The Manual of Detection: A Novel”, p.120, Penguin

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