“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.” EnoughUseMy OwnClassCareersCoupleLuckyTrainingSittingInstinctFormalHere And There Author:Nancy McKeon
“I probably won't be able to hear it until five years from now anyway. That's when I always hear my own music. It takes five years to sit down with it after not hearing it for a couple of years.” YearsAbleMy OwnFiveCoupleHearingFive Years Author:Alan Vega
“I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all I need is a couple of hours of solitude and a computer, and I can write a chapter. Since my work is portable, I can live anywhere I like.” NeedsWritingI CanHoursMy OwnMastersCoupleSolitudeComputerChapters Author:Stuart Woods
“Ill buy an old jacket and attach gold buttons and a couple royal patches. Or Ill find an old busted sweatshirt, tear out the zipper, and replace it with a $700 zipper. I make things my own.” My OwnTearsCoupleGoldIllButtonsRoyalPatchesJacketsBustedZippersSweatshirts Author:Theophilus London
“For educated Americans like Joseph Ellis, Vietnam is a special hang-up. I am an Englishman of exactly the Vietnam generation, a couple of years younger than Ellis; indeed, for reasons too complicated to explain here, I was nearly drafted into the US army in 1965. I know many Americans of my own age and, as much to the point, my own class - journalists, publishers, lawyers. And I don't think I know one who served in Vietnam.” ThinkingKnowsYearsReasonAgeMy OwnClassGenerationsSpecialCoupleArmyComplicatedLawyerEducatedJournalistVietnamPublishersEnglishmenHang UpsUs Army Author:Geoffrey Wheatcroft
“In between shooting for Awake, I was attempting to have my own pilot season. The audition for Anger Management actually came during a week that I was already testing for a couple other shows and we werent really letting any other shows into the mix.” ShowsMy OwnWeekCoupleSeasonsManagementShootingAwakePilotsAuditionsTestingAttemptingAnger Management Author:Daniela Bobadilla
“Im a huge fan of The Odd Couple, yes, and any comparisons to Tony Randall and or Jack Lemmon are completely welcome. I kind of try to channel those guys, and then add my own neuroses, too.” TryingKindGuyMy OwnFansHugeCoupleAddWelcomeOddComparisonNeurosisOdd Couple Author:David Alan Basche
“I was composing before I realised I was a composer. It came more or less naturally. There were a couple of old ladies lived next door to me, and I frequented their house more than I did my own, because it had all those marvellous things in that that old ladies do have. And they had a piano, and I used to play around with that; they showed me how to read music and I used to play to them.” PlayUsedNextHouseMy OwnDoorsCouplePianoComposerRealisedComposingOld LadyMarvellous Author:Richard Meale
“The concept of emotional or spiritual survival has an honorable history, but it does invite self-indulgence. In my own case, the worst I ever survived was severe personal and political confusion, the temptation to various sorts of craziness and a couple of bad acid trips. It felt pretty horrendous at the time, and some of it was even dangerous, but Auschwitz it wasn't.” DoeSelfSpiritualPoliticalFeltMy OwnCasesWorstDangerousEmotionalCoupleSurvivalConceptsVariousConfusionTemptationInvitesSurvivedHonorableSevereIndulgenceAcidCrazinessAuschwitzSelf IndulgenceAcid Trip Book:Beginning to See the Light: Sex, Hope, and Rock-And-Roll Source: Beginning to See the Light: Sex, Hope, and Rock-And-Roll
“Once I was a couple. I was my own king and queen with cheese and bread and rosé on the rocks of Rockport.” SelfMy OwnRocksCoupleKingsBreadQueensCheeseKings And Queens Book:El Asesino y otros poemas Source: El Asesino y otros poemas
“When I was a kid, I used to live in New York City. There was a guy named Michael Alig. He used to throw parties. And a couple of times, I even worked for him and his crew, and handed out fliers, and had my super-high shoes on, and wearing silver Saran Wrap around my head or something. It's a world I was really comfortable in: a world full of individuals. I think what I like about that world - besides my own personal interests - is the individualism, the investment in the self.” ThinkingWorldSelfKidsUsedGuyIndividualInterestMy OwnPartyCitiesNew YorkCoupleComfortableInvestmentShoesSilverNew York CityIndividualismCrewWrapsPersonal Interest Author:Jared Leto
“What I find really difficult is making career decisions. Normally it will take me two weeks, until the very last minute and I have to say yes or no. For a couple of weeks, I will tune everyone out who is giving me advice, so that I can make a clear decision on my own and it takes time.” GivingI CanTwoLastsDifficultMy OwnDecisionCareersClearWeekMinutesAdviceCoupleTunesTake MeTake TimeTwo WeeksIt Takes TimeLast MinuteYes Or No Author:Paul Walker
“I am a true 80s girl. I loved Kylie, Madonna, The Bangles and Human League. I fancied a couple of the Neighbours kids too and I loved Bros. God, I had terrible music taste. I’m getting a taste of my own medicine now, as my daughter’s been asking for some quite scary albums.” HumansKidsGirlMy OwnCoupleTerribleTasteDaughterAskingMedicineAlbumsScaryLeagueMy Daughter80sNeighbourBrosBangles Author:Donna Air
“Also for me, I don't make endless movies back to back all the time, I really sort of come to understand and love the characters that I play. And with April and Hanna you sort of go through a weird period of feeling sad about letting them go. Sometimes that takes me a week and sometimes it takes me a couple of months, just so that I can feel I can realign my own thoughts again. I do feel really, really blessed that I've had these opportunities.” FeelsI CanSometimesPlayCharacterFeelingsOpportunityMy OwnWeekMonthsCouplePeriodsAnd LoveBlessedEndlessTake MeAprilFeeling Sad Author:Kate Winslet
“I initially wanted to tell 'Oscillate Wildly' story because it wasn't one I had heard or seen before. The invisibility piece resonated most. Somewhere over the past couple of years I realized that I've essentially been making movies for my teenage self who struggled with isolation and my own brand of invisibility living in rural Ohio.” YearsSelfStoriesWantedPastMy OwnPiecesHeardCoupleI RealizedBrandsIsolationTeenageOver The PastOhioInvisibility Author:Travis Mathews
“After watching a couple of live performances of bands like Nirvana, I was really excited and inspired by how raw and powerful it was. I wanted to at least aim in that direction with the guitar and do my own version of it. I know it doesn't really sound like that on the other end, but I wanted guitar, heavy rhythms, and singing to be the stamp of the whole thing.” KnowsEndsWholeWantedSoundMy OwnPowerfulCoupleBandSingingPerformancesAimInspiredGuitarExcitedHeavyVersionsRhythmStampsLive Performance Author:Panda Bear