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“I am not an exponent of expressionism. I don't know exactly what that means, but I don't like the sound of it. I dislike cults and isms. I want to paint in terms of my own thinking and feeling.”

Thinking Knows Want Mean Feelings Sound Term My Own Expression Paint Dislike Cult Isms Expressionism Exponents

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a combination of noble and striking sounds, our dream of artistic achievement, a pen name grand enough to compensate for my own feeling of insecurity and helplessness at the idea of everything my mother expected from me.”

Source: Promise at Dawn

“It's like aversion therapy. You keep doing scenes over and over again with three women in the bed with you, and we had to do them all in one week. Three girls would step out and another three girls would step into the bed. It sounds like a fantasy but by the end of it, I just wanted to go for a hike on my own in the north of England, in the hills. Because it became a sort of "be careful what you wish for" kinda thing.”

Ends Wanted Girl Three Wish Sound My Own Steps Fantasy Week Scene Bed England Careful Hills Therapy Be Careful Aversion Careful What You Wish For

Author:Steve Coogan

“I am out of humanity's reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.”

Humanity Sound My Own Journey Sweet Speech My Journey Sweet Music Journey Alone

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it--even of my own music--with the same nuances forever.”

Knows Important Matter Facts Sound Chance My Own Forever Wonderful Elements Built Performances Important Things Nuance Drawbacks Live Performance

Author:Aaron Copland

“It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness.”

People Wells May Problem Sound My Own Practice Middle Century Bases Decades Psychological Chiefs Emptiness Surprising Colleagues Twentieth Century Clinicals Psychiatric

Book:Man's Search for Himself

Source: Man's Search for Himself

“The one thing I cannot stand is when I do interviews, when I interview people, and I listen to the tapes and I hear myself talking and sort of stumble and stammer, or I hear the horrible sound of my own voice, or God forbid I see myself on video, there is that complete revulsion with seeing how I occur in the world.”

People World Sound Voice My Own Talking Seeing One Thing Horrible Video Interviews Tape Revulsion

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“I am called to listen to the sound of my own heart -- to write the story within myself that demands to be told at that particular point in my life. And if I do this faithfully, clothing that idea in the flesh of human experience and setting it in a true place, the sound from my heart will resound in the reader's heart.”

Ifs Writing Humans Heart Ideas Stories Sound My Own Particular Reader My Heart Demand Flesh Setting Settings Clothings Human Experience

Author:Katherine Paterson

“My own words, when I am at work on a story, I hear too as they go, in the same voice that I hear when I read in books. When I write and the sound of it comes back to my ears, then I act to make changes. I have always trusted this voice.”

Writing Book Stories Sound Voice My Own Ears Trusted Making Changes

Book:One Writer's Beginnings

Source: One Writer's Beginnings

“Spanish and English have such different music, and in my own poetry I feel much less drawn to fluid sounds than I do toward the hard sounds and rhythms that come out of the Anglo-Saxon roots of English.”

Feels Different Hard Sound My Own Roots Rhythm Fluid Anglo Saxon Different Music Spanish And English

Author:Joan Larkin

“I know that sounds cliché, but mostly from my own experiences and things I see around me. We're all human beings, and a lot of the things I write about are pretty universal things.”

Knows Writing Humans Sound My Own Human Beings Universal

Author:Joan Jett

“I have no fresh-from-the-oven mother-daughter recollections - only the daily creaking of cans being opened and the sucking sound of gelatinous vegetables splurting from their tin-encased vacuums. Her kitchen was filled with smoke and impatience. ... And so I grew up finding my own path, frying what could not be boiled, winging my way through life without recipes.”

Way Mother Sound My Own Path Grew Findings Grew Up Daughter Filled Smoke My Way Kitchen Vegetables Recipes Impatience Vacuums Recollection Mother Daughter Tin Ovens Frying

Author:Patricia J. Williams

“When I started writing, I didn't have the common sense to use a pseudonym, so I write under my own name. If I did have a pen name, though, it would be something very historical - something that sounds very sort of Regency... Sophia something.”

Ifs Writing Use Would Be Names Sound My Own Common Historical Common Sense Pens Sophia Pseudonyms

Author:Nicola Cornick

“I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.”

People Thinking Mean Universe Enjoy Sound My Own Appreciate Competing

Author:Vidya Balan

“I wanted to give people a taste of my own music through the sound and style of my covers.”

People Giving Wanted Sound My Own Style Taste

Author:Birdy

“I'm going to sound a little weird here, but I like to spend a lot of time on my own in the woods. I don't exactly sneak off in the middle of the night, but I like to be in a place where no one can reach me by phone or e-mail.”

Littles Night Sound My Own Middle Phones Woods Mail Sneak Middle Of The Night

Author:Joaquin Phoenix

“I know that I can't ever write a song that just sounds completely saccharin. Even if I'm singing about someone being my complete love life, I'm singing about my own inabilities to be as bright as that person.”

Ifs Knows Writing Persons I Can Song Sound My Own Singing Love Life Inability

Author:Alexis Taylor

“The trick is not to get too fanatical about getting the accent too accurate because then that becomes a mask. What I try to do is just painting and sketching some of the sounds without obliterating my own voice.”

Trying Sound Voice My Own Painting Tricks Mask Accurate Accents Sketching

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“I do have a huge problem, a huge problem. In fact, worse than watching is hearing. I cannot stand to hear my own voice. When it's coming out of my mouth right now it sounds fantastically interesting to me. It's rich in light and shade, it goes up and down. But when I hear it either on TV or even on someone's answering machine, I just sound like I've had half my brain removed.”

Facts Problem Light Sound Voice My Own Interesting Brain Half Rich Tvs Huge Right Now Mouths Machines Hearing Shade Coming Out Up And Down Answering Machines

Author:Hugh Laurie

“I have this thing about my own voice on record. No matter what I sing, it sounds really serious, and I sound self loathing or whatever, which was just driving me nuts because that's not what I was writing.”

Writing Self Matter Sound Voice My Own Records Serious No Matter What Driving Nuts Loathing Self Loathing

Author:Thom Yorke

“I got my own sound; nobody sounds like me.”

Sound My Own Like Me

Author:Fetty Wap

“I don't really marinate in anybody's album because I don't really want to sound like anybody else when I put my album out. So I'd rather not even be tempted to listen to a bunch of other stuff with any degree of emersion in it, cause I just don't want to sound like anything else, so I kinda focus on my own music.”

Want Causes Stuff Sound My Own Focus Degrees Albums Bunch Tempted

Author:John Legend

“My mother always accused me of being in love with the sound of my own voice. When we went on road trips, she'd be like, 'Stop singing. Be quiet, you're talking just to hear yourself speak.' It was probably true. I like to ramble on, which is probably why I'm well suited to interviews. You know, there's no other forum where you're literally supposed to sit down and just talk for hours about yourself. I love it.”

Knows Wells Mother Speak Sound Voice Hours My Own Talking Quiet Singing Down And Interviews About Yourself Accused Being In Love Forums Road Trip

Author:Ben Affleck

“It's the hardest thing for a young player to develop. At the same time a young player also has to deliver their musicality to the audience. I'm still developing my own sound, because you can never know all the music.”

Knows Stills Young Sound My Own Audience Player Hardest Developing Hardest Thing Musicality

Author:Jimmy Heath

“I am a feral person. I have no bank account. I am unemployable. I own nothing. I lose my shoes sometimes when I go out. It sounds like I'm making a case for my own exceptionalism, which I suppose I am, but I wish it wasn't true.”

Persons Sometimes Wish Sound Loses My Own Cases Accounts Shoes Bank Accounts Exceptionalism

Author:Tony Burgess

“Because of Billy Joel, I've been playing piano since I was knee high. The house was always full of music, so of course he's influenced me, but I think I've also developed my own sound. He's also been really good about giving me advice, which I think has helped me really stay true to what I want to do musically.”

Thinking Want Giving Courses House Sound My Own Advice Knees Piano Stay True Playing Piano

Author:Alexa Ray Joel

“I'm a piano player. I never thought of myself as a singer, at all. I was always trying to sound like somebody else. I don't like my own voice, I like Ray Charles, Robert Plant, I like Joe Cocker, Rod Stewart, people that have an edge in their voice.”

People Trying Sound Voice My Own Player Plant Edges Singers Piano Rays Always Trying

Author:Billy Joel

“The music I actually listen to sounds nothing like my own!”

Author:Christopher Tin

“All the times, all the very many times, I had been forced to thwart and stifle my own nature seemed to gather together then, in that hot and dismal corridor. I heard a rushing sound in my head and felt a pressure in my breast, like floodwaters rising behind a flimsy dike. Before I knew I did it, the soup bowl was rising in my hand as if elevated by some supernatural force. Then, its yellow-gray contents were running down the nurse's pudgy face.”

Ifs Hands Running Together Faces Force Felt Sound My Own Behinds Heard Pressure Hot Rising Breasts Gray Yellow Nurse Bowls Soup Rushing Corridors Supernatural Forces

Book:March

Source: March