My Own Quotes - Page 27

• I decided to build up my band in Buffalo because Buffalo was where I had originally built up my own musical strength.

  Rick James

  Musical, Band, Buffalo

  FaceBook post by Rick James from Feb 20, 2015

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• My signature line of clothing for Satya Paul will showcase a distinctive aspect of my own personal style. Co-creating and endorsing a line for one of India's finest brands will be a new experience for me

  Gauri Khan

  New Experiences, Creating, Style

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• The down side these days is thinking that, “I can do this all on my own”.  Yes, you can do this on your own but you’ll be a much happier human being if you do it with other human beings.

  Mick Fleetwood

  Thinking, Yes You Can, Sides

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• All I hear is my own grating thoughts. Is there anything more horrid than being trapped inside yourself with nothing but your own insecurities.

  Sarah Jio

  Insecurity, Trapped

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• I'm perfectly capable of being stupid on my own.

  Leigh Bardugo

  Stupid, Being Stupid, Capable

  Leigh Bardugo (2013). “Siege and Storm”, p.187, Macmillan

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• I want to look into a mirror that will love my own reflection harder than I hate myself.

  Meggie Royer

  Hate, Reflection, Mirrors

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• My television fed me visions, but I never created my own until I became a reader.

  Barry Lane

  Vision, Feds, Reader

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• Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select-doctor, lawyer, merchant-chief, and yes, even beggar man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.

  John B

  Learning, Science, Men

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• As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with CLARITY, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold.

  Juan Goytisolo

  Clarity, Companion

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• Beginning with the first day of life outside the womb, every child is asking two core questions: 'Am I loved?' and 'Can I get my own way?' These two questions mark us throughout life, and the answers we receive set the course for how we live.

  Dan B. Allender

  Children, Two, Asking

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• I like to think of myself as an original. I have my own sound. That's not easy to come by, I worked on it for many years. But I like to think that I sound like Dewey Redman

  Dewey Redman

  Thinking, Years, Sound

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• The money I've earned has enabled me to keep my life in my own hands. I had a terrific body, and I got paid for using it.

  Carmen Dell'Orefice

  Hands, Body, Terrific

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• I’m willing to look my own nightmare on film, but if it endangers my life, then I’m willing to put my life before movies.

  John Travolta

  Looks, Nightmare, Film

  "New Again: John Travolta". Interview with Margy Rochlin, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 15, 2012.

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• My mom really instilled in me that I'm beautiful and I can do anything, and I echo that now with my own girls.

  Jennie Garth

  Beautiful, Girl, Mom

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• If I'm at home on my own and the writing isn't going well, I clean my house. And there have been times in the past few years when my house has looked really clean.

  Peter Mullan

  Home, Writing, Past

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• I lived on my own when I was living in New York City when I was 18, working on a show. And that definitely kind of grows you up a little faster than a normal 18-year-old in college, so I think so. I think I've got some street smarts.

  Alexandra Chando

  New York, Smart, College

  "Talent and The Lying Game Star Alexandra Chando Admits She Totally Watches Gossip Girl and Vampire Diaries". Interview with Haley Longman, www.teen.com. April 29, 2011.

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• I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role much more aggressively than in the recording studio.

  Kiri Te Kanawa

  Creative, Roles, States

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• I've struggled enough in my life to be appreciated and understood. I've had to go against all kinds of people through the years just to be myself. I think everybody should be allowed to be who they are, and to love who they love. I don't think we should be judgmental. Lord, I've got enough problems of my own to pass judgment on somebody else.

  Dolly Parton

  Thinking, Years, People

  "Dolly Parton Q&A: The Country Legend on 50 Years in Nashville and Why She Supports Her Gay Fans". Interview with Deborah Evans Price, www.billboard.com. October 24, 2014.

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• What I do for a living means that people look at me. As an actress, you are scrutinized. You are not just dealing with your looks privately, you are on display. I have never been 100 percent comfortable in my own skin. I go through different phases. But I don't feel beautiful all the time, no.

  Sophia Myles

  Beautiful, Mean, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As far as my own life goes, I don't buy into the Hollywood scene.

  Steve Schirripa

  Hollywood, Scene, My Own Life

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• I want to earn my own way, I like having nice things but I've never accepted anything I haven't earned.

  Jayne Mansfield

  Nice, Want, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've always tried to be an actor who... I just plod on and try to keep my mouth shut, mind my own business. I find the whole thing about people's lives... I can't understand it. I'm always astonished that people want to know anything about me.

  Michael Gambon

  People, Mind, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My immediate family was always very supportive. It was my own fear of the rest of the world not accepting me, the rest of our society not accepting my wish to be an actor.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Supportive, Wish, Actors

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• I am aloof by nature. I mind my own business. I'm good with everyone, and I get along fine with people. But work is work, and friendship is friendship. I never mix the two.

  Sonakshi Sinha

  Two, People, Mind

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• I used to do my own make-up. I used to have this doll that had those big eyelashes on the top and bottom, and I think I copied her when I was doing my eyes, putting false eyelashes on the bottom as well as the top. So I came up with that look myself.

  Twiggy

  Eye, Thinking, Dolls

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