Quotes by category:My Own

For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.

me you my-own wonder

You know, I Google search my own name because I'm so self-obsessed!

Eddie McClintock

search name you my-own

I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would put on plays; I would write my own stories.

parents child sister my-own

Just because I'm a successful singer who's loved and has been loved for years doesn't mean I'm sitting behind electric gates in my own fantasy land.

loved fantasy my-own sitting

I don't sleep well when I'm traveling, so there's nothing I like more than getting in my own bed.

nothing own my-own sleep

I know that in my own mind, I struggle with a desire to be both entirely absent and entirely present in any given moment.

moment my-own struggle mind

My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.

weird own my-own perspective

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

Dag Hammarskjold

own burden my-own loneliness

That's part of the dream - doing my own stunts!

Dacre Montgomery

own doing my-own dream

I started doing a Ph.D., and then I thought, 'I don't really want to spend all this time on my own in the library.'

thought library my-own time

I was excited to make my own 'Neverland.' by Gail Carson Levine

I was excited to make my own 'Neverland.'

Gail Carson Levine

make own excited my-own

I'm a loner. I kind of like to be alone and do my work and, you k... by Faye Dunaway

I'm a loner. I kind of like to be alone and do my work and, you know, be focused on my own things.

alone you my-own work

We're obviously in a strange environment where practically anyone can set themselves up as a pundit of sorts. It's all about sorting the wheat from the chaff, and I'm very interested in reading different points of view, and certainly different generations than my own that have such a very different world view.

view my-own reading world

The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel... by I. M. Pei

The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.

own building my-own practice

The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.

best my-own people way

No man could have accepted me because I am too rebellious. It would have been catastrophe. I am too into my own thing.

Fatema Mernissi

i-am me man my-own

I definitely have my own brand, and so I never, ever envision myself with anyone else's lips.

never myself lips my-own

Writing in English made me become a foreigner in my own country. It helped me create the necessary distance to my homeland.

Hallgrimur Helgason

me my-own writing country

I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.

Baltasar Kormakur

loved movies feel my-own

I'll never get complacent. I am my own toughest critic.

i-am own never my-own