My Own Quotes - Page 13

• I was always an Olsen. I never thought of myself as a Brady. I never actually wanted to be a Brady. I always preferred my own family to the Bradys.

  Susan Olsen

  Wanted, Brady

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• I can only speak for myself. But what I write and how I write is done in order to save my own life. And I mean that literally. For me literature is a way of knowing that I am not hallucinating, that whatever I feel/know is.

  Barbara Christian

  Writing, Mean, Order

  Barbara Christian (2010). “New Black Feminist Criticism, 1985-2000”, p.49, University of Illinois Press

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• I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what I do.

  Stedman Graham

  Country, Book, Passion

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• I love you so much. I love you enough that I want to stay separate from you. You're an extraordinary man, Frank Wright. I could so easily lose myself in your world and never make a world of my own. And where would that leave us? We'd both be bored stupid.

  Nancy Horan

  Love, Stupid, Men

  Nancy Horan (2007). “Loving Frank: A Novel”, p.145, Ballantine Books

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• I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Eat Love Pray, Shimmer, Rescue

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.344, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I think that public service is tough on a family - no ifs, ands, buts about it. I have my own personal wishes, but they're not always front and center.

  Maria Shriver

  Thinking, Ifs And, Wish

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• I've always chosen all my own material; no one ever told me what to sing or how to sing it, but I've always been pressured intensely to use musicians outside of my band.

  Jane Monheit

  Musician, Band, Use

  Toronto Star, November 11, 2010.

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• I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way.

  Madeleine Peyroux

  Song, Holiday, Order

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• I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.

  Raekwon

  Marketing, Tools, Might

  "Question in the Form of an Answer: An Interview with Chef Raekwon". Interview with Jeff Weiss, www.laweekly.com. November 21, 2008.

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• I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn't all start just a few years ago!

  Paul Prudhomme

  Country, Years, Different

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• I became interested in photography when I was sharing a studio with Walker Evans, and found my own sketching was inadequate.

  Ben Shahn

  Photography, Sketching, Found

  "Ben Shahn".

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• I don't have a life of my own. I've put myself and my life at the service of the people. If necessity dictates I run, I run.. go to jail, I go to jail.. die, I die.My private aspirations are exactly the general aspirations of the people.

  Yusuf Idris

  Running, Jail, People

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• I've never sought to be on an A-list. I've done my own thing and my own thing has thankfully now brought me an audience.

  Mira Nair

  Done, Lists, Audience

  "Becky Sharp is like me - a survivor" by Geoffrey Macnab, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2004.

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• In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.

  Andres Serrano

  Catholic, Obsession

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• My own experience of over 60 years in biomedical research amply demonstrated that without the use of animals and of human beings, it would have been impossible to acquire the important knowledge needed to prevent much suffering and premature death not only among humans but also among [other] animals.

  Albert Sabin

  Animal, Years, Suffering

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• In my own version of the idea of 'what art wants,' the end and fulfillment of the history of art is the philosophical understanding of what art is, an understanding that is achieved in the way that understanding in each of our lives is achieved, namely, from the mistakes we make, the false paths we follow, the false images we have come to abandon until we learn wherein our limits consist, and then how to live within those limits.

  Arthur Danto

  Art, Mistake, Philosophical

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• I put my own d*ck in my mouth. I was 14 and much more flexible at the time. It was soft and required a lot of pulling. I really wanted that case of beer.

  Chad Kroeger

  Beer, Mouths, Cases

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• I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Childhood

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• When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Children, Writing, Voice

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• Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Writing, Opportunity, Play

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• If I had to pick the greatest team player in baseball today-and I have some of the greats on my own club-I would have to pick Pie Traynor.

  John McGraw

  Baseball, Team, Player

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• If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Passion, Past, Invoke

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• I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so I made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.

  Joshua Slocum

  Book, Being Alone, Self

  Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.145, Applewood Books

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• Brings [O'Brian's] achievement to a new height....Such is O'Brian's power to possess the imagination that I found I was living in his world as much as my own, wanting to know what happens next. That is the real test. Any contemporary novelist should recognize in Patrick O'Brian a Master of the Art.

  Alan Judd

  Art, Real, Imagination

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• I hope to God that the inner strength that will vindicate my deeds will in good time spring forth from my own people. I have done as I had to on the prompting of my inner voice.

  Kurt Huber

  Spring, Voice, People

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