My Own Quotes - Page 30

• The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

  Randy Bachman

  Son, Rocks, Community

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• In terms of my own film experience, I'm definitely used to morose and very heavy, heavy dramas.

  Mia Kirshner

  Drama, Film, Used

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• It's the board I had a problem with. I could totally handle being in the water and stuff. I came here to do my own stunts. Water! Ocean! Action! Big waves! That water, that water has tamed me. You can feel that the world is connected to it.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Ocean, Water, Boards

  Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. August 15, 2002.

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• I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.

  Tennessee Ernie Ford

  Rehearsal, Sometimes, Fingers

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• I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself.

  Miroslav Vitous

  Technique, Lines, Bass

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• Walking I am unbound, and find that precious unity of life and imagination, that silent outgoing self, which is so easy to loose, but which a high moments seems to start up again from the deepest rhythms of my own body. How often have I had this longing for an infinite walk - of going unimpeded, until the movement of my body as I walk fell into the flight of streets under my feet - until I in my body and the world in its skin of earth were blended into a single act of knowing.

  Alfred Kazin

  Journey, Feet, Hiking

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• It is the task of several months and it is a fact that a girl, either while rehearsing or actually playing, may be training for some character or feature in some future production not yet definitely fixed even in my own mind.

  Florenz Ziegfeld

  Girl, Character, Training

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• Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.

  Paul Tsongas

  Faith, Adversity, Commitment

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• It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own; I had just grown up with it.

  Scott Stapp

  Faith, Fighting, Hey

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• Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often in the small hours of the night when, it is said, the greatest numbers of people die.

  Brian Sibley

  Night, Thinking, Numbers

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• I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Life, War, Thinking

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• If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind.

  Sarah Zettel

  Character, Mind, Stories

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• In my own mind, we are a much happier and much more functional family and a much more well balanced group of individual s both off and on the stage - in the current incarnation.

  James Young

  Mind, Groups, Individual

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• I suppose when I was a kid, and I went to movies, and later went to some plays on my own when I got a little older, in New Orleans, where I was living then, I zeroed in on the actor.

  Ray Walston

  Movie, Kids, New Orleans

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• I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer.

  Alicia Witt

  Music, Song, Writing

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• When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.

  Larry Wall

  Power, Design, Community

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• Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.

  Jane Rule

  Beautiful, Hard Work, Writing

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• The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Order, Effort

  Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

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• I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Thinking, Cities

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.53, Harvard University Press

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• What I particularly liked was that, coming from California and not being involved in the New York scene, I developed my personal way, in my own way, at my own pace.

  Herb Ritts

  New York, Hygiene, California

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• It's my first presenting role so I'll be nervous, but it's going to be great fun. I can't wait to sample the food and meet the celebrities. Hopefully I can inject some of my own glamour.

  Nicole Appleton

  Fun, Waiting, Style

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• In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Believe, Past, Ideas

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.327, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Mind, Speak

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.108, Stanford University Press

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• What I believe, according to my own experience, is that a calm, peaceful mind is a very important element for sustaining the body in a balanced way.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Believe, Peaceful

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• I have no knowledge other than that gained through my own eyes.

  Vannoccio Biringuccio

  Knowledge, Eye, Science

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