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“I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.”

Persons I Can Speak My Own Known Slavery Observation

Book:Slave Narratives Compilation: Twelve Years A Slave, My Bondage and My Freedom, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave

Source: Slave Narratives Compilation: Twelve Years A Slave, My Bondage and My Freedom, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave

“The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I knew in Chicago. Dirty Dragon was based on a good friend I had in Indianapolis.”

People Character My Own Known Personality Degrees Aspect Combination Dirty Dragons Chicago Good Friend Puppets Indianapolis My Own Personality

Author:William Jackson

“I am very much aware of my own double self... The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown one can be very unpleasant. I think this side is responsible for all the creative work - he is in touch with the child.”

Thinking Wells Children Self Sides My Own Known Creative Ego Responsible Secure Well Known Creative Work

Book:Ingmar Bergman: Interviews

Source: Ingmar Bergman: Interviews

“I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.”

World My Own Known Criticism Bounds Definitions Endeavour Disinterested

Author:Matthew Arnold

“Farewell, too little, and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own.”

Thinking Littles My Own Known Farewell

Author:John Dryden

“What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the next generation know me, too.”

Knows Men Inspirational Important Next My Own Known Generations Old Man Know Me Next Generation

Author:Christopher Lee

“This morning it occurred to me for the first time that my body, my faithful companion and friend, truer and better known to me than my own soul, may be after all only a sly beast who will end by devouring his master.”

Firsts May Soul Ends Body My Own Known Morning Masters First Time Faithful Beast Companion Sly Devouring

Book:Memoirs of Hadrian

Source: Memoirs of Hadrian

“I make up the characters in my books, but of course my consciousness is filled with every child I've ever known, including my two grandchildren, my own kids (I had four) and especially myself as a child, because that person still lives inside me, too.”

Children Persons Stills Two Book Character Kids Courses My Own Consciousness Known Four Filled Including Grandchildren Still Life

Author:Lois Lowry

“I prefer being known for my stand-up because I write it. I love being an actor, and saying other people's words is great. But then, when I do stand-up, I love getting my own point of view out there.”

People Writing Actors My Own Love Is Views Known Point Of View

Author:Kathy Griffin

“My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world weve long known and the world that will become.”

World Long My Own Known Careers Strange Dichotomy

Author:Jeffrey Toobin

“Pinterest has been helpful to my business. Making inspiration boards is really key to developing products. When I was getting married, I literally cut out tear sheets and put my own boards together. Had I known about Pinterest, I would have been able to do it so much more easily.”

Has Beens Inspiration Able Together My Own Known Cutting Tears Products Keys Married Developing Boards Helpful Sheets Getting Married Pinterest

Author:Dylan Lauren

“I have known nothing the last thirty years save the struggle for human rights on this continent. If it had been a class of men whowere disfranchised and denied their legal rights, I believe I should have devoted my life precisely as I have done in behalf of my own sex.”

Ifs Men Should Years Believe Humans Done Lasts I Believe Sex My Own Known Class Struggle Rights Should Have Human Rights Thirty Denied Continents Devoted Behalf Thirty Years Legal Rights

Author:Susan B. Anthony

“I like Paris because I find something here, something of integrity, which I seem to have strangely lost in my own country. It is simplest of all to say that I like to live among people and surroundings where I am not always conscious of 'thou shall not.' I am colored and wish to be known as colored, but sometimes I have felt that my growth as a writer has been hampered in my own country. And so - but only temporarily - I have fled from it.”

People Has Beens Country Sometimes Seems Lost Wish Felt Growth My Own Known Integrity Racism Conscious Paris Simplest Surroundings

Author:Jessie Redmon Fauset

“I've always known that I've wanted to write, but I always saw myself doing that in the context of something other than film, so it was a really beautiful and kind of perfect moment in my life when I realized that I could combine this idea of wanting to write and tell my own stories with the environment I had grown up in and knew well - that I could make film as opposed to writing being a departure from what I knew.”

Writing Wells Kind Ideas Moments Stories Wanted Beautiful Film My Own Perfect Known Environment Saws I Realized Departure Really Beautiful Perfect Moments

Author:Sarah Polley

“I believe myself to be a worthwhile and inventive performer in my own right. [And] I want to be known for what I do best.”

Want Believe I Believe My Own Known Performers Worthwhile

Author:George Carlin

“Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am. Actually I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth. I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible. But people like to re-invent you, according to cliché.”

People Social My Own Known Position Youth Type Ought Arrogant Impressed Overwhelmed

Author:Gore Vidal

“I am sure that there are many Christians who will confess that their experience has been very much like my own-that we had long known the Lord without realizing that meekness and lowliness of heart should be the distinguishing feature of the disciple, as they were of the Master. Such humility is not a thing that will come on its own. It must be made the object of special desire, prayer, faith and practice.”

Should Heart Long Has Beens Made Christian Desire Realizing My Own Prayer Known Lord Practice Special Objects Humility Masters Features Disciple Meekness Lowliness

Author:Andy Murray

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