“I came up with my own 'Dream Shake' I guess - the white version.” DreamMy OwnWhiteVersionsShakes Author:Dirk Nowitzki
“I feel like I always had an ear. I have the ability and the gift to hear a song and really play it in a matter of five to 10 minutes and make my own version out of it. So it's always been easy playing by ear.” FeelsMatterPlaySongEasyMy OwnAbilityFiveMinutesEarsVersions Author:Jeremih
“I have created the Raven in my own image over the years and insist that mine is the version of this personality that is correct - well, at least it is correct as far as I am concerned.” YearsWellsMy OwnMinesPersonalityConcernedIndividualityVersionsRavens Author:Bill Reid
“It suits my own attitude toward the world and its people to believe that the Raven is this completely self-centered, uninvolved bringer of change, through inadvertence and accident, and so on... It's a version of the Raven myth for today, not for the time when it was created.” PeopleWorldBelieveSelfTodayMy OwnAttitudeMythAccidentsVersionsSuitsInterpretationSelf CenteredRavens Author:Bill Reid
“I'm very happy that I have an Italian version, a French version, and then I have my own company, but I'm not obsessed by my name. Some people are, "Oh, my name," but I couldn't care less about my name. What I like is the job. The ego trip of that comes later.” PeopleCareJobsNamesMy OwnCompanyEgoVersionsObsessedItalianVery HappyEgo Trip Author:Karl Lagerfeld
“But when I saw the cursive grace of Guido Rahr's fly line writing prayers I couldn't read to the river gods of Outer Mongolia, I knew my name was written there too. Fly fishing was going to be my version of my father's sport, my nod to my Scottish ancestors and to my self, and to the fish crazed part of America I had claimed as my own.” WritingSelfAmericaFatherNamesSportsLinesMy OwnPrayerSawsGraceWrittenSeaRiversFishesVersionsBoatLakesFishingAncestorScottishFly FishingMongoliaCursiveGuidos Author:Jessica Maxwell
“The fact that all our ape cousins - chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans - can acquire signs - is powerful evidence that our hominid ancestors' first language was gestural and that the vocal version of language was a relatively recent development. My own guess is that vocal language began emerging about 200,000 years ago.” YearsFirstsFactsLanguageMy OwnPowerfulAtheismDevelopmentEvidenceYears AgoPositive AtheismVersionsAcquireAncestorCousinVocalEmergingApesChimpanzeesGorillasOrangutansHominids Author:Roger Fouts
“I really cherish having my private time and being alone and being able to decompress. It's my own version of meditating.” AbleMy OwnVersionsCherishMeditating Author:Tim Gunn
“I was in my late thirties and decided my intention in life had nothing to do with the acquiring of material things, but rather it was now my intention to experience the evolution of my own soul and to grow spiritually. I wanted to come to know the highest truths of life and to express those truths in action, through myself. I wanted to become the grandest version of the greatest idea I ever held about who I am in regards to my relationship with God.” KnowsIdeasSoulActionWantedGrowsMy OwnMaterialsEvolutionLateHighestDecidedRegardIntentionWho I AmVersionsTruth Of LifeRelationship With GodMaterial Things Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“I'm a self-taught musician so how I read music is kind of very weak and I kind of read my own version of tablature, I write my own crappy reminders on what I'm playing.” WritingKindSelfMy OwnTaughtMusicianMusic IsWeakVersionsRemindersSelf Taught Author:Jason Mraz
“I think by around the time I was about 8 or 9, the idea of filmmaking probably took hold. I made little Super 8 extravaganzas when I was a kid, the first being my own version of Romeo and Juliet, and where I played all the parts except for Juliet.” ThinkingFirstsLittlesMadeIdeasKidsMy OwnVersionsFilmmakingJuliet Author:Todd Haynes
“I [...] vowed that rather than let Alzheimer's take me, I would take it. I would live my life as ever to the full and die, before the disease mounted its last attack, in my own home, in a chair on the lawn, with a brandy in my hand to wash down whatever modern version of the "Brompton cocktail" some helpful medic could supply. And with Thomas Tallis on my iPod, I would shake hands with Death.” LifeHomeHandsLastsDiesMy OwnModernDiseaseVersionsShakesChairsHelpfulTake MeLiving My LifeLawnsCocktailsLife DeathIpodsAlzheimerAlzheimer'sBrandyMedics Author:Terry Pratchett
“Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own life.” PeopleKnowsWritingSometimesCharacterMy OwnMinesVersionsMinorsMy Own LifeMinor Characters Author:Cassandra Clare
“When I was very young, I was already a fabulador. I loved to give my own version of stories that everybody already knew. When I got out of a movie with my sisters, I retold them the whole story. In general they liked my version better than the one they had seen.” GivingWholeStoriesYoungActorsMy OwnVersionsMovieMy Sister Author:Pedro Almodovar
“When I do programming in my free time and for my own enjoyment, I really want to have a kind of protection: knowing that when I improve a program those improvements will continue to be available to me and others in future versions of the program.” WantKindMy OwnKnowingProgramAvailableProtectionImprovementVersionsEnjoymentProgrammingFree Time Author:Linus Torvalds
“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