Quotes by category:My Own

'The Secret River' began because, at the age of 50, I suddenly realised I knew nothing about how my own family had got its foothold in Australia.

river my-own family age

As I grew up, I read and loved many fairy-tale retellings and began to think about writing my own reimagining of 'Rapunzel.'

loved think my-own writing

My first novel, 'In the Drink,' begun when I was 29 and floundering and published when I was 36 and married, was about a 29-year-old woman whose life was even more screwed up than my own had been.

Kate Christensen

woman drink my-own life

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

Isambard K. Brunel

i-am own my-own design

It is well known that in the Communist countries, and especially in my own, Albania, readers were often called upon to demonstrate their vigilance by detecting and denouncing the 'errors' of authors.

well own my-own errors

My own beliefs are that the road to a scientific discovery is seldom direct and that it does not necessarily require great expertise. In fact, I am convinced that often a newcomer to a field has a great advantage because he is ignorant and does not know all the complicated reasons why a particular experiment should not be attempted.

road i-am great my-own

He taught me how to fly on my own and learn the tricks. by Izabella Scorupco

He taught me how to fly on my own and learn the tricks.

Izabella Scorupco

fly own me my-own

Often, I'll do a quick workout in my hotel room consisting of exercises for the legs, glutes, abs, and arms with my own body weight. Also, I always have a jump rope, a medicine ball I can inflate, and a band in my suitcase. It's a great kit to have for travel.

great my-own body travel

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a rock star, not an actor. It means I can do what I want on my own terms.

own rock-star my-own i-can

I really want to be the black Tina Fey, where I just am able to produce my own content and produce other content for other minority filmmakers and put their voices on screen and basically be able to have free range to produce.

own free my-own black

I floated around in the department of biochemistry and learned some interesting things, and then I began to... I never wanted to work with a mentor because I always wanted to have my own reputation and be free to do what I wanted to do. So I worked with the weakest people in the department. Don't make that public.

reputation my-own work people

One thing that helps to stretch me is to listen to other preacher's sermons. Every year, I will listen to at least ten other preachers, both to hear God speak to me, and also to evaluate their preaching to see what I can learn and how I can improve my own preaching.

me my-own speak god

I've come to learn from my own experiences and those around me that it's not about survival of the fittest but about who can adapt the best to change.

Natalya Neidhart

best me my-own change

I get lost in my own house - and it's not even a big house.

own my-own house lost

When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had real... by Olusegun Obasanjo

When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.

Olusegun Obasanjo

only own my-own office

I suppose I've got a natural rhythm. When I was little, I used to just dance a lot and have some fun. I'd never been taught to dance. I've never been to dance school. I do my own little dance moves.

my-own dance fun school

I never tried to use anything besides my own sweat and blood and... by Olivia Munn

I never tried to use anything besides my own sweat and blood and talent to get somewhere.

never sweat my-own talent

I'm always surprised at what I actually end up doing because I don't have a strategy or a game plan, especially now that I'm making my own choices.

end game my-own choices

I've tried to write from my own understanding of identity in all my comics, whether it's about superheroes or historical conflicts or monkey gods.

monkey my-own understanding identity

This is a profession for me, but I started off as a self-publisher working on my own schedule and my own stuff before moving on to graphic novels with First Second Books, where there was definitely a schedule, but it was very different from monthly comics.

me moving-on my-own moving