The older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.
I’m very comfortable in my own skin now. I started just being myself more and more. For women, this happens as you get older. I loved my 40s – I thought they were fantastic. And I’m loving my 50s. I’m going to love everything because you’re either older or dead!
It’s my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel’s aesthetic facade.
I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.
O never give me over to my own heart’s desires, nor let me follow my own imaginations!
Pretty much my whole life, I’ve been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.
If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.
I’ve learned through my own experiences that working toward an objective in your life can change who you are.
One girl used to call me Brownie and tell me to go back to my own country. At lunch, I’d get a bag of chips from the vending machine and eat it in the storage room so I wouldn’t have to see her.
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
Being homeschooled for half of my life allowed me to choose my own curriculum and find things I really enjoy, and that’s kind of inspired me. I’ve always been intrigued in or interested in the topics I’ve been covering.
I set my own goals higher than what anybody else has set for me.
My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that – with my background – my own son would become an FBI agent.
I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
I just tried to be an artist in my own metier.
If somebody had started on a remake of French Kiss before I announced my own film, I would have dropped my subject. If someone else starts after me, what am I to do?
I am not an atheist; I believe in God. But my religion ends there. I have my own personal belief system that is so strong it allows me to do what I do. I don’t have to worry about going to Hell because of Slayer, you know? Everyone has a personal belief system and believes in life somehow.
It is not according to my mode of doing things, to bring a suit against a man that I have the power in my own hands to punish.
I don’t think about medals. I just think of bettering my own time.
Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history is a miracle, let alone 100 years.
I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
Certainly I was a very religious child, a deeply weird and very emotional child, an only child with lots of imaginary friends and a very active imagination. I loved Sunday school and Bible camp and all that. I had my own white Bible with Jesus’ words printed in red in the text; I even spoke at youth revivals.
I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
My dedication to my music has driven everyone away. I’ve had girlfriends, but I always end up on my own. I don’t particularly like it, but I don’t see a way ’round it.
Shooting for ‘Gandhi’ was a revelation for me. We were all given scripts and then we were asked to do our homework. I searched for books on Kasturba, but I found only two books, that’s all. So I had to rely on my own skills.
I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
I went from not being known anywhere in the world to winning junior Wimbledon and six months later playing the Australian Open. I was a victim of my own success, really.
I am my own home, and my handkerchief is my flag.
Living up to people’s expectations is one thing but it was even harder to live up to my own expectations.
My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest the nature of these referential points without dimensions in and through the processes by which the distance between them is maintained.
I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.
I love dancing, and I dance for my own happiness.
I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn’t start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more conventional plays, but the theater I loved was downtown experimental theater. I didn’t feel like I could do that either. It didn’t occur to me to do my own thing.
I love to perform, to give glory to God with my own brand of funky gospel music. I think it’s my mission to show people that God, that Jesus, can be cool.
I don’t really follow market research. In the end, I respond to my own instincts.
I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by my audience who said your private pain which you have unwittingly shown us in your early songs is also ours.
I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.
I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.
The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread.
I’ve made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.
I’m comfortable in my own skin and surroundings. I don’t think I get overshadowed by my husband or his personality.
I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.
My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can’t prove it, but you can’t disprove it either.
Being in the public eye is part of what I do, and taking on a multitude of different projects – television, radio, fashion, writing or deep-sea diving – is a blessing. It is also how I pay my bills and fund my own skating, as I don’t have a sponsor or financial help from my federation.
Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn’t really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.
As regards my own ‘philosophy,’ I continue to be inspired by the music, liturgy and architectural tradition of the Anglican Church in which I was brought up. No one can fail to be uplifted by great cathedrals – such as that at Ely, near my home in Cambridge.
I definitely feel more comfortable in my own skin since turning 40.
But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.
I am well aware of different views across my own party and across parliament on pretty well all Brexit issues.
I have my own studio down in Miami.
I like to paint my own helmets. I design my own suit and boots, I like being unique in that way.
It’s so self-evident that I have to live my own history, to remind people the fact that I got into radio back in the early ’80s was because of AIDS and HIV. It was what motivated me – that was the topic that I felt was so important that I had to talk about it, educating young people about it.
I know that on my own sites, a picture of me with my mom or me with my dog does well, but when I put up a picture of myself shirtless, it does get a little crazy.
Of course I’m schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart.
‘Deep Red’ (1975) is my favorite movie. The character David Hemmings plays is very much based on my own personality. It was a very strong film, very brutal, and of course the censors were upset. It was cut by almost an hour in some countries.
YouTube is akin to having my own network.
I am personally an idealist. I was lucky enough to follow my dreams in my own life, so you should definitely follow your dreams.
When I follow my own head, I am, in general, much more correct in my judgment than following the opinion of others.
I set up my own trading center in my Cabot dorm room… with my computer, my fax machine, and my telephone.
My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it’s so drawn from my own life and my own stories.
One day I was sitting in my own pain, and suddenly all the pain and troubles of the world came to me. I received all the pain of the world, all through my body.
People know what I look like. I take photos on my own, and I don’t edit them, so people know.
Design my own line? No, I just like the culture.
I know myself, from my own background, the E.U. depresses employment and destroys jobs. My father had a business destroyed by the common fisheries policy.
I love my stuff – you’re not supposed to say that. But because I’m performer as well as a writer, I’m constantly interacting with my own work. I always get to find these little secrets that I left for myself, little notes – I find them all over the scores.
