My Own Work Quotes
61 quotes by 58 authors
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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of…
— Paul Auster
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I would be far more critical than any reviewer could be of my own work. So I simply don't read them.
— John Banville
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As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.
— Jane Campion
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I somehow sensed when I was a teenager that I wanted to do my own work. I was quite clear that I didn't want to…
— Meredith Monk
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I am not very interested in extraordinary angles. They can be effective on certain occasions, but I do not feel the necessity for them in…
— Bill Brandt
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Kids who are least impressive in my class are the ones who only listen to one kind of music. They only listen to country or…
— Andy Wilkinson
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I definitely intend to create my own work in the future so that we don't have to keep saying we don't have work for black…
— Lupita Nyong'o
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I hardly ever watch my own work. I just end up picking myself apart! I can't even stand to hear myself on voicemail. the sound…
— Grey DeLisle
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In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in…
— Paul Allen
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For more than twenty years by my own work and personal initiative, I have gathered from all the old streets of Vieux Paris photographic plates,…
— Eugene Atget
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But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will
— Bill Sienkiewicz
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In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a…
— James Schuyler
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I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.
— Mick Jagger
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A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image. For my own work, when a picture looks labored and…
— Helen Frankenthaler
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I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies…
— Alice Hoffman
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I work between my heartbeat. I have one-and-a-half seconds to actually move. And at the same time I have to watch I don’t inhale my…
— Willard Wigan
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I tried to do it all myself: be mommy and camp counselor and art teacher and prereading specialist (and somehow, in my off-hours, to do…
— Judith Warner
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I am mindful that scientific achievement is rooted in the past, is cultivated to full stature by many contemporaries and flourishes only in favorable environment.…
— Ernest Lawrence
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As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me.
— Jim Hodges
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I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.
— Joseph Wambaugh
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