Own Story Quotes
129 Own Story quotes by 115 unique authors
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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has…
— Jane Austen
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I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but…
— Tori Amos
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One of the most important responsibilities of leaders in any setting - including business organisations - is to tell us our own story; to explain…
— Hugh Mackay
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Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the…
— Barack Obama
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No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially those who are the worst of us. Some of the…
— Jim Butcher
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Africa's risks are mainly perceived and not real. Unfortunately for us in Africa we are not really very good at telling our own story. But…
— Aliko Dangote
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The thing I'm writing now, I have various characters, and all of a sudden, out of nowhere, this couple dies. And they have a daughter.…
— Sandra Dallas
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Anyone involved with songwriting will testify to the fact that each song, no matter how pure or from the heart, has its own story, its…
— Unknown Author
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By telling my own story, I hope to help remove the stigma. It never should be something to hide.
— Richard Dreyfuss
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People like to come up to me and tell me that I’ve got nice ink. Except these tattoos aren’t just decorations. They are declarations. Every…
— CM Punk
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Become the director, producer, choreographer of your own story
— Deepak Chopra
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When you leave here today and commence the next stage of your life, you can follow someone else's script, try to make choices that will…
— Kerry Washington
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Men grow up expecting to be the hero of their own story. Women grow up expecting to be the supporting actress in somebody else's I…
— Laurie Penny
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The date is not important. The age is not important. Time is not important. Life is very fleeting. It’s important to be gentle and optimistic.…
— Oscar Niemeyer
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Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.
— Maeve Binchy
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If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.
— Isabel Allende
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I always wanted to create this community that would come and tell their own story, shoot it - and watch them. The idea is to…
— Michel Gondry
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The story, I like to say and remember, is always smarter than you—there will be patterns of theme, image, and idea that are much savvier…
— Lucy Corin
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Don’t you think every face tells its own story? Like a book? More like a poem. If you study it long enough, you’ll soon find…
— Gail Tsukiyama
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We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own story as a nation, our own…
— Bill Moyers
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When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses…
— Raymond Queneau
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More than any of us, she had written her own story; yet she could not wash it out with all her tears, return to her…
— Unknown Author
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Bear in Mind...that all Histories from the Rock at Plymouth, and Jamestown to the present time, have been made by white men, and a man…
— Sam Houston
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This is the problem with language, and this is what makes silent movies fun, because the connection with them, me or the audience is not…
— Michel Hazanavicius
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard
— Edmund White
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