Own Quotes
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The minute he arrived at his own parents' house and was confronted by the smallness of the rooms, the old walls covered with dusty calendars, and passepartout pictures of animals, the electrical wires snaking and dangling loosely from the ceiling, the buzzing fluorescent lamp that never lit properly, transforming the house into a gloomy, dusty cubicle, he wanted to return to the city. He could not properly splice in movie landscapes here, because everything was too familiar, and because he was too connected with the droning quarrels.
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What is writing but an expression of my own life?
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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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What happens in improv is you create your own storyline.
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I'm a historian in my own mind.
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What vital U.S. interest is imperiled in who comes to power in Podgorica, Montenegro? Why cannot Europe handle this problem in its own back yard?
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When I was young, I made all of my own clothes.
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We all have our own little thing, I think.
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When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.
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Those who own much have much to fear.
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Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
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At the age of eight I became, in my own eyes at least, a writer.
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I want to make my own movie.
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When I was a little boy, I rode, but I didn't own horses.
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Left to my own devices I'd get up at midday every day of my life.
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Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.
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You never toot your own horn.
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In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It's to each their own, really.
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...Each secret you carry has a weight all its own. They add up, secrets, to a burden you must carry all your days.
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By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.
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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
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I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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Even though I'm a leftist. I think the left eats its own.
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Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our own self-interest; specialization, which he called division of labor; and freedom of trade.
