Quotes by category:My Own

I love the pioneers like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding, but when I write music, it comes out in my own way.

my-own music love way

I'd never want to go back to being in my twenties or thirties. I was lost and confused and uncomfortable in my own skin.

skin never confused my-own

That's something I would love to do - play leading roles and really hold it on my own in those leading roles.

own my-own play love

I don't have a hard and fast rule about dignity. I'm concerned about being treated with respect, but if I make my own choices and kind of let 'er rip, I will.

dignity respect my-own choices

The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation.

Leslie Charteris

own my-own reading country

I've listened to Eminem rap. That's not daily fare for me, but I can't help but admire how vivid what he does is. My own taste goes a little more toward Norah Jones.

daily me admire my-own

It's so much easier for me to get up and be someone else than expressing my own thoughts and feelings. There's definitely something about creating a cloak of a character that helped me deal with my shyness.

thoughts me my-own character

I'm my own worst enemy and I know that. by Lindsay Lohan

I'm my own worst enemy and I know that.

own know my-own enemy

I'm perfectly gregarious, but I can also be really happy left to my own devices with nobody watching me or listening to me.

nobody me my-own happy

I'd rather have a pencil and paper and do all my own calculations rather than rely on a machine. And I'll do most calculations in double digit multiples as quick as the machine.

pencil own my-own paper

I have enjoyed writing my own stuff, and it's been a privilege to be able to scrap some money together to be able to make films from my own scripts.

Lisa Cholodenko

my-own money together writing

My own novel, 'The Silver Bough,' about the inhabitants of a remote town at risk of being overwhelmed by Scotland's mythological past, was once criticised by a disgruntled fan as 'fantasy for people who don't read fantasy.'

fantasy my-own people past

Everyone looks to an artist for something more than just the music, and that message of being comfortable in my own skin is number one for me.

skin me my-own music

I had to find my own path, and in some ways, it's been a good thing.

Lizzie Armitstead

own good my-own path

I had my own musical ideas that Mick helped me with as well. by Lou Gramm

I had my own musical ideas that Mick helped me with as well.

own me my-own ideas

I'm always working my own thing. A few times a week - I try to not go too crazy - I'm working with some other artist. But I'm constantly working my own stuff, and my own stuff seems to come in little bursts.

try my-own crazy artist

If I saw someone in need and I did nothing, I'd be defacing my ow... by Luis Gutierrez

If I saw someone in need and I did nothing, I'd be defacing my own humanity.

nothing someone my-own humanity

If, through my own personal journey, I can inspire someone else to self-love, that would be the biggest accomplishment.

self-love someone my-own journey

Living in Barcelona, I have my own little ghetto utopia. There are 3,000 ghost towns in Spain, and I've used the images of them a lot in my backdrops for my solo spoken-word stuff. The ghost towns could be from two buildings to 40 - things died out, or there were plagues, the roads don't lead there, whatever.

buildings roads ghetto my-own

I live in a craftsman house, but I'm a big fan of modernist and mid-century furniture and architecture, too. But my dream is to do a truly original chair design, something that is all these different things but is my own, too.

Luke Macfarlane

live my-own architecture dream