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“I am more comfortable on set than I am in my own home.”

“My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, husband, human being and male in this culture.”

Humans Culture Father My Own Human Beings Son Husband Degrees Males Notion Subversive Father Husband

Author:Mark Leyner

“I'm very self-conscious as an actor, with performances and things, and I don't like watching my own stuff.”

Self Actors Stuff My Own Conscious Performances Self Conscious

Author:Matthew Lewis

“I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the outside world, games with words, and ideas about relationships are all most important to me.”

People Thinking World Important Ideas Games Language My Own Flow Copies Imagery Outside World

Author:Margaret Mahy

“I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.”

Thinking Way Writing Believe Character Able I Believe My Own Attitude Style Events Originals Work Out Affected Good Writers

Author:Margaret Mahy

“There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters.”

Needs Character Stories Seems My Own Space Ordinary Everyday Abandon Take Me Everyday Life Retreat Time And Space Ordinary Life

Author:Margaret Mahy

“As long as I can still be on my own and do my own thing and be working full time, it's great.”

Long Stills I Can My Own

Author:Marian McPartland

“It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going to be spending years on a project, I need to be interested in the whole thing. I'm not there to be on my own. And if I'm going to be with these people, I'd best be interested in their work.”

People Ifs Needs Years Important Whole My Own Projects Spending

Author:Mary McDonnell

“Actually I've never had formal training, I was lucky enough to continue working most of my career and aside from sitting in on a couple of classes, here and there, I basically just use my own instincts.”

Enough Use My Own Class Careers Couple Lucky Training Sitting Instinct Formal Here And There

Author:Nancy McKeon

“My favorite music to sing would be my own songs, my original songs, just because I know them, you know I write the tunes, so my favorite songs are the newest ones that I write. That's what I like to sing the most, because it means something, it's real, it comes from me.”

Knows Writing Mean Real Would Be Song My Own Originals My Favorite Tunes Favorite Song Favorite Music

Author:Paul McDonald

“I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.”

Thinking Way Littles Different Kids Able Wish Grows Bits My Own Growing Up One Thing Mystery Birth Little Bit Different Ways Farms Exposure

Author:Rachel McAdams

“I think I'm well on the way of overcoming a very big hurdle that's been in my way for several years. Which is trying to find a way to not let the insecurity of my profession get the better of me and make me crazy. I'm trying to find a way to maintain my own personal balance in the midst of everything.”

Thinking Way Trying Years Wells Bigs My Own Crazy Balance Overcoming Profession My Way Insecurity Midst Hurdle

Author:Rebecca De Mornay

“I've always been a big supporter of the Surfrider Foundation. I started my own foundation, Rob Machado Foundation, which focuses on environmental education for the little people of the world.”

People World Littles Bigs My Own Foundation Environmental Supporter

Author:Rob Machado

“I shared guitars before I actually got one of my own and played a guy's Silver tone and played another guys Danelectro 12 string and it was at about age 17 that I actually started playing.”

Age Guy My Own Guitar Tone Silver Strings Other Guys

Author:Ronnie Montrose

“I'm very lucky that I get to make a living out of acting, which is what I love, and the level of attention I receive has sometimes been my own fault and sometimes not been.”

Sometimes My Own Levels Acting Attention Lucky Faults

Author:Sienna Miller

“I always write things that entertain me, and one of the things that I find really enjoyable to explore is the idea of love. I like looking at my own life and my friends and family and how love changes who you are. It fascinates me.”

Writing Ideas My Own My Friends Who You Are Family And Friends Enjoyable My Own Life

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so much of my life and I loved it. I've always been a reader. I think living all those stories served me to naturally take that next step to creating.”

Thinking Feels Stories Body Reading Next My Own Steps Reader Creating Defined Next Steps

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“They told me that they are starting a classic label, and wanted me to be the first artist. So I signed, and am producing myself, and writing my own music, but I'm their first artist on their classic label. And I have creative control.”

Writing Firsts Wanted Artist My Own Creative Starting Labels Classic

Author:Teena Marie

“In the future, I see me as being my own artist and definitely not a ballad singer!”

Artist My Own Singers Ballads

Author:Thia Megia

“So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more an instinctive reaction, meant to protect the private aspect of the work, the part I am most interested in and which nowadays is at risk in our culture.”

Art Culture My Own Risk Development Protect Aspect Reactions Autonomy

Author:Thom Mayne

“I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it's a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis.”

People Way Spiritual Energy Term My Own Focus Crisis Obsession Spiritual Crisis

Author:Jodie Foster

“I'm so critical of my own work that it's difficult for me to disassociate myself and watch it as an audience.”

Difficult My Own Watches Audience Critical

Author:Tobey Maguire

“In a weird way, that's the beauty of being an actor. You get to live out things that you're afraid of, and you get to say, 'Well, maybe I can get to the end of it and survive it intact and I can be the hero of my own story.' It's kind of a way of exorcising fear.”

Way Wells Kind I Can Ends Stories Actors My Own Hero

Author:Jodie Foster

“I spend my own money, not other people's money.”

People My Own

Author:Vijay Mallya

“I've never felt that I've had some great fashion sense of my own - I tend to wear what my wife tells me to wear.”

Felt My Own Wife Fashion My Wife Great Fashion

Author:Alessandro Nivola

“I'm obviously very involved with my own charity and foundation that I work with. Obviously, I'm very passionate about that.”

My Own Involved Foundation Charity Passionate

Author:David Nail

“My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.”

Character Names My Own Glorious Disgrace Envied Horatio

Book:The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson

Source: The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson

“None of the editors I've worked with have ever asked me to pull my punches. They've never asked me to give them anything other than my own interpretation of events.”

Giving My Own Events Photography Interpretation Editors

Author:James Nachtwey

“I think I was righteous. I saw myself as the good guy in my own movie. I didn't get into many fights when I was younger, but when I did, they were righteous. I always thought I was defending something good. I fought for friends who couldn't fight for themselves. I was still being selfish and arrogant, but I was focused on what was fair and unfair.”

Thinking Stills Guy Fighting My Own Saws Fairs Focused Selfish Righteous Arrogant Unfair Good Guy Being Selfish

Author:Jo Nesbo

“I have writing songs on my own for about six years.”

Writing Years Song My Own Six Writing Songs

Author:Joanna Newsom

“I'm pushing ahead on my own - you no longer need a large record company to make you a star.”

Needs Stars My Own Company Records Pushing Record Companies

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember making my own beetle collection when it was still acceptable to make such collections.”

Stills Different Remember My Own Fruit Following Collections Acceptable Great Times Investigating Protocol Beetles Mutants Had A Great Time Pigment Fruit Flies

Author:Paul Nurse

“There've been times where I wondered whether it was worth continuing in my own education.”

My Own Continuing

Author:Peter R. Orszag

“In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know.”

Knows Bigs Values Parent My Own Goes On Higher Protection Household Asian Discouragement Higher Education

Author:Sandra Oh

“Not getting girls is the story of my life. I have always had a bit of a tough time with the ladies. I don't know whether it's that I don't have game or just don't feel comfortable in my own skin, but females pick up on that.”

Knows Feels Stories Girl Games Bits My Own Comfortable Picks Tough Female Skins Tough Times Story Of My Life

Author:Josh Peck

“Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.”

Writing Seems Differences My Own Reader Equal Importance Prose

Author:Kevin Powers

“I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.”

Want Dream Goal My Own Dreams And Goals

Author:Natalie du Toit

“They proved to me by convincing reasons that God does not exist; Afterwards I saw God, for he came and embraced me. And now what am I to believe- the reasoning of others or my own experience? Truth is what the soul has seen and experienced; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.”

Believe Doe Soul Reason God My Own Opinion Saws Truth Is Prejudice Appearance Reasoning Convincing

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“I do my own analysis on the teams I am refereeing. I will know some of the personalities, the players who could be difficult customers in a scrum situation, the ones I am going to have to really work hard on early in the game to get what I want.”

Knows Want Hard Games Difficult My Own Situation Player Team Hard Work Personality Customers Analysis Scrum

Author:Alan Lewis

“I can tell you that, you know, when I went to my first movie premiere, it was my own movie, and I wore the best jeans I had and my favorite top. You know, I made sure my hair had some wave in it because I braided it the night before myself.”

Knows Firsts Made I Can Night My Own Hair My Favorite Wave Jeans Premieres

Author:Diane Lane

“I started putting down my own pen and spending some time searching for the best songs out there possible. It doesn't matter if I wrote them or not.”

Ifs Matter Song My Own Spending Pens

Author:Jake Owen

“I don't come from money or an educated family background or any sort of supportive family life, so all of my choices are made on my own.”

Made Choices My Own Backgrounds Educated Supportive Family Life Family Background Supportive Family

Author:Cat Power

“The joy of 'Crash' was that it was all about the work. It was my first real part. Before that, it was a line here and there, maybe a scene. 'Crash' was five scenes, a beautiful arc, a little vignette of my own. It really meant something.”

Firsts Littles Real Beautiful Joy Lines My Own Five Scene Working It Crash Here And There Really Mean Arcs Vignettes

Author:Michael Pena

“I have a very hard time with confrontation in my own life, and I end up being way too nice.”

Way Ends Hard My Own Nice Hard Times Confrontation My Own Life Too Nice

Author:Missi Pyle

“I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.”

Kind Challenges My Own Luck

Author:Oren Peli

“I mean I am not Hilary Duff. Like I have my own path that I'm going to go on.”

Mean My Own Path Goes On

Author:Sara Paxton

“I have a trend of my own.”

My Own Trends

Author:Andrei Platonov

“From time to time I think I made some errors in judgment, but I have some really fashionable friends and I feel I've cultivated my own sense of style and what I feel comfortable with over the years.”

Thinking Feels Years Made My Own Style Comfortable Judgment Errors Fashionable

Author:Busy Philipps

“I'm 64 years old and, yeah, I went through a transition in my life last year, with the death of my son, that woke me up to a lot of things. You know, I'm perfectly happy in my own little groove. Marching along, building my company, and you know, a happy person.”

Knows Years Littles Persons Lasts My Own Company Building Son Yeah My Son Transition Last Year Groove Happy Person

Author:Carl Paladino

“I've tried to maintain my independence in Congress. Sometimes that has meant opposing my own party leaders.”

Sometimes My Own Party Leader Independence Congress Opposing

Author:Collin Peterson

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