Own Quotes · Page 234

Of course, who you are and what's inside your head is more important than how you look, but that isn't going to…

— Vick Hope

Teaching is a great complement to writing. It's very social and gets you out of your own head. It's also very optimistic.…

— Eleanor Catton

It is easier to make a film but difficult to make it on your own terms. In that sense 'Madras Cafe' was…

— Shoojit Sircar

The Marines have landed, and we now own a piece of Afghanistan.

— Jim Mattis

Usually in my own shows I'm running around like crazy, climbing on things, jumping on people.

— Peaches

My earliest interest in game design came when I was in primary school, and my parents bought a Commodore 128 computer. I…

— Brendan Myers

The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.

— James Anthony Froude

We grow our own vegetables.

— Christina Applegate

Before anything else, my favorite thing as a fan of music was to make up my own story as to what it…

— Justin Tranter

I have bought some land and I'm going to build my own house in Holland.

— Michael van Gerwen

I'm not saying people shouldn't apply themselves and work hard. You do have to try to make your own luck. But I…

— David Lindsay-Abaire

Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.

— Zainab Salbi

With 'Fellow Travelers,' I think I was consciously trying to imagine what my own life as a gay man might have been…

— Thomas Mallon

When people ask me who I'd want to have dinner with, dead or alive, I always say, 'John Lennon.' I just feel…

— Alanis Morissette

Once you become a mother, your relationships in your own life change. Perhaps with your own mother, and perhaps with your sister.…

— Melanie Scrofano

I'm not a player who beats his own drum.

— Ken Griffey Jr

I'm a guitar player. I've carved out my own style of guitar music, so I don't look for inspiration with playing guitar.

— Jamie Hince

My sense of my own superiority over many of my classmates would have been much more muted if I knew that they…

— Abhijit Banerjee

If you want to be a writer, you have to learn to write in other people's voices until you get the chance…

— Nahnatchka Khan

When I make my own videos, I am the writer, the editor, the lighting person, everything - that's why my videos are…

— Lilly Singh

We just don't like the idea of turning the children over to nannies and minders. We like to help them ourselves -…

— Grace Kelly

Being homeschooled for half of my life allowed me to choose my own curriculum and find things I really enjoy, and that's…

— Yara Shahidi

It is a parent's responsibility to preserve the connection with their children, to preserve the relationship, so that the children can let…

— Gordon Neufeld

I come from 'black-box' theater, where basically, you make your own adventure out of nothing.

— Dan Fogler

I just believe that young people need to be able to learn how to write in their own voice. Just like a…

— Terry McMillan

I've served on five different juries, and many of them were bonkers in their own way.

— Simon Hoggart

On 'Think Like a Man,' they got the best out of me because they allowed me to bring my own cadences and…

— Kevin Hart

I write all of my own speeches.

— Greta Thunburg

I'm not competitive at all, I just don't care. I have my own standards I want to meet, but it's a very,…

— James Buckley

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

— Mark Twain

You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!

— Dan Aykroyd

There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and…

— Leland Stanford

I got very serious about micro-piglets and what it would be like to own them.

— Perfume Genius

I see so many people who are not keen on getting married because they are busy working and doing their own stuff.…

— Kratika Sengar

I'm the first British artist to have two successive number ones on his own independent label.

— Dizzee Rascal

In theater, you get to rehearse several weeks, you memorize everything, and by the time you open, you know what the play…

— Seth Numrich

I partnered with Mission: it's a really cool company based on giving athletes what they need. I have my own signature lip…

— Gretchen Bleiler

The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.

— William Wilberforce

Expose yourself to the products and promotions of other manufacturers, and your own field of new ideas will greatly increase.

— E. Joseph Cossman

When people finance a movie, they have their own ideas and have things they want to change.

— Lulu Wang