My Own Quotes - Page 12

• The best way I have ever found to fill that hole is not to seek external motivations to fill the emptiness, but to ignite the internal fire that will never go out. To light up my own inner sky.

  James Altucher

  Motivation, Fire, Light

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• The Chinese tell time by 'The Year of the Horse' or 'The Year of the Dragon.' I tell time by 'The Year of the Back' and 'The Year of the Elbow.' This year it's 'The Year of the Ulnar Nerve.' Someone once asked me if I had any physical incapacities of my own. 'Sure I do,' I said. 'One big one - Jim Palmer.'

  Earl Weaver

  Horse, Dragons, Years

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• It's not for me to share the meanings of others. I am only in charge of my own.

  Paul Cornell

  Share

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• If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism and marginality and so constituted a kind of acknowledgment of my own preposterousness, admitting my bad faith in good faith, so to speak.

  Ben Lerner

  Practice, Admitting, Kind

  Ben Lerner (2012). “Leaving the Atocha Station”, p.58, Granta Books

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• I tell myself it's a virtue, my failure to sleep in my own house, or at all. I tell myself that I spend more hours than most people aware that I am alive, and that over a lifetime this adds up to more living, more aliveness. I am more alive than the rest of my family. Which is my greatest night fear. Which is why I hunt. I don't ever want to be more alive than they are.

  Heidi Julavits

  Sleep, Night, People

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• I felt like a Tinker toy kid building my own self out of one of those toy building sets; for as she laid her life before me, I reassembled the tableau of her words like a picture puzzle, and as I did, so my own life was rebuilt.

  James McBride

  Kids, Self, Toys

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• I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears. The spirits of the dead have nothing on it. The dead one tried to show me hell, but it was a pale imitation of the horror I can paint on the darkness in a quiet moment.

  Mark Lawrence

  Fear, Writing, Quiet Moments

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.26, Penguin

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• In its jolly mission to expose the dark underbelly of the children’s book world, Wild Things! turns up stories I’ve been hearing noised about for ages, but with a lot more detail and authenticity. The stories may not be quite as sordid as my own imagination had conjured up—although a few of them are—because there’s no denying that this field is full of mostly nice people!—but it’s all fun and a great read for anyone interested in both children’s books and the collection of people who make them.

  Paul O. Zelinsky

  Children, Fun, Nice

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• If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

  Julian Fellowes

  Secret, Looks, Maids

  "Gosford Park". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around.

  Eric Avery

  Bucks, Way, Firsts

  "Eric Avery joins Addiction for NME Awards" by Jonathan Cohen, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 16, 2008.

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• I've never really tried to copy anyone, I like to have my own style.

  Liam Aiken

  Style, Copies, My Own Style

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes I go into my own little world. It's okay, they know me there.

  Joel Hodgson

  Funny, Humor, World

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• I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.

  Nigel Kneale

  Would Be, Stories, Television

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• I wasn't put on this earth to be housekeeper to my own child or to anyone else for that matter.

  Lynn Freed

  Children, Earth, Matter

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• For the record, my own loyalties are uncomplicated. I adore few humans more than I love books. I make no promises, but I do not expect to purchase a Kindle or a Nook or any of their offspring. I hope to keep bringing home bound paper books until my shelves snap from their weight, until there is no room in my apartment for a bed or a couch or another human being, until the floorboards collapse and my eyes blur to dim. But the book, bless it, is not a simple thing.

  Ben Ehrenreich

  Loyalty, Book, Home

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• I made clothes because I was looking for something that didn't exist. I had to try to create my own world.

  Thierry Mugler

  Clothes, Trying, World

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• I'd rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort.

  J. Paul Getty

  Funny, Teamwork, Humorous

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• I do research. I do emotional sort of Method work. Somehow it’s a huge mishmash of things that becomes my own acting process and my own way of navigating through something. But ultimately the desire is to be honest, and for that truth to bleed through into your work and onto the screen.

  Nicole Kidman

  Emotional, Desire, Acting

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Oct 19, 2016

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• Since no man ever can, or could, live by himself and for himself alone, the destinies of thousands of other people were bound to be affected, some remotely, but some very directly and near-at-hand, by my own choices and decisions and desires, as my own life would also be formed and modified according to theirs.

  Thomas Merton

  Destiny, Men, Hands

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• I always said that, when I grow up, I want to be like Joss Whedon: I want to have my own world.

  Amber Benson

  Growing Up, World, Want

  "Amber Benson talks books, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and being hit on by teenage boys". Interview with Alex McLevy, tv.avclub.com. January 28, 2015.

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• I was minding my own business when something says to me, "you ought to blow trumpet." I have just been trying ever since.

  Miles Davis

  Blow, Trying, Trumpets

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• I have my own opinion that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified, unless we preach what nowadays is called Calvinism. It is a nickname to call it Calvinism; Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Nicknames, Opinion, Christ

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.64, Barbour Publishing

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• I've created my own career in my life, and I've had a lot of fun doing it. I think that's good.

  Pamela Anderson

  Fun, Thinking, Careers

  "Pamela Anderson embraces new phase in life". "Larry King Live" with Larry King, www.cnn.com. July 24, 2002.

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• Even in my own life, there are memories I have that are difficult to explain - happenings that are so odd and unaccountably weird, that it is difficult to imagine they were not the result of prolonged and frequent contact with aliens throughout my life.

  John Hodgman

  Memories, Motivation, Inspiration

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• How do I create something out of nothing? And how do I create my own life? I think it is by questioning, and saying to myself that there are no absolute truths.

  Amy Tan

  Motivation, Inspiration, Thinking

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