Quotes about My Own Life

I'm really bad at describing my own life. Votes: 4

I'm a minor player in my own life story. Votes: 4

Women are extremely important shapers of my own life. Votes: 4

What is writing but an expression of my own life? Votes: 4

My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life. Votes: 4

In my own life I'm frequently in predominantly white atmospheres. Votes: 4

It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles. Votes: 4

I spend my jollity on stage, so there is less in my own life. Votes: 4

Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has. Votes: 4

People care about my fame, not me. But that's fine. I have my own life. Votes: 4

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories. Votes: 4

More than my own life Votes: 3

I want to make my own life a masterpiece. Votes: 3

I feel like I'm away for much of my own life. Votes: 3

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life. Votes: 3

I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life Votes: 3

I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life. Votes: 3

Sometimes I will endanger my own life to pleasure a woman. Votes: 3

I have my own life. And I am stronger than you know. Votes: 3

In my own life, I don't have intercourse. That is my choice. Votes: 3

I can't run a company... I can't even run my own life! Votes: 3

In my own life, I have no problems letting out a good scream. Votes: 3

I do tend to be a leader in situations in my own life. Votes: 3

I just live my own life, and I don't read any of the magazines. Votes: 3

Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself. Votes: 3

As far as my own life goes, I don't buy into the Hollywood scene. Votes: 3

I'm not conservative, but I am kind of clean living in my own life. Votes: 3

I really have learned to trust myself in business and in my own life. Votes: 3

I know that sometimes in my own life I really felt like killing people. Votes: 3

Dealing with my own life takes priority over other people dealing with my life. Votes: 3

What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime. Votes: 3

I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls Votes: 3

I understood....that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history. Votes: 3

I began writing fiction when I started running out of material in my own life. Votes: 3

I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me. Votes: 3

I needed to address that I've had some profound moral shifts in my own life. Votes: 3

I feel in my own life I've made many mistakes. I've failed in many directions. Votes: 3

I never give any character I play less respect than I give my own life. Votes: 3

The way I choose to live my own life rates time and space as real luxuries. Votes: 3

Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material. Votes: 3

I'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life. Votes: 3

I'm drawn to failure. I feel that I'm contending with it constantly in my own life. Votes: 3

I just love crafting and shaping sounds... I like to breathe my own life into these sounds Votes: 3

I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene. Votes: 3

I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination. Votes: 3

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life. Votes: 3

I definitely do feel a pull toward people and places that are far from my own life. Votes: 3

I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life. Votes: 3

I just can't see myself as a trophy wife. I can't imagine not having my own life. Votes: 3

I try to make choices for my own life. And I try to make those choices count. Votes: 3

I'd sleep and forget it; I had my own life, my own sad and ragged life forever. Votes: 3

Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am. Votes: 3

It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going. Votes: 3

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life. Votes: 3

I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business. Votes: 3

I have started to say "A quarter of a century" Or "thirty years back" About my own life. Votes: 3

I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life. Votes: 3

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. Votes: 3

There's a competitive fire inside me. I can't get enough. I live to compete daily in my own life. Votes: 3

I just needed to get out on my own, live my own life. And I did, and it's great. Votes: 3

I am in an extended self-directed course of study. That is, I am in control of my own life. Votes: 3

I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people. Votes: 3

Yes, I do feel the world revolves around me. After all, I am the main character of my own life. Votes: 3

I have a very hard time with confrontation in my own life, and I end up being way too nice. Votes: 3

I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life. Votes: 3

I don't belong to anything, nobody's listening to me and I don't have any levers that control my own life. Votes: 3

It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life. Votes: 3

Getting all emotionally wrapped up in made-up people's lives gives me a chance to take a break from my own life [...]. Votes: 3

From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide. Votes: 3

I wrote to explain my own life to myself, stories are the vessels I use to interpret the world to myself. Votes: 3

Getting all emotionally wrapped up in made-up people's lives gives me a chance to take a break from my own life [...]." Votes: 3

I've always felt a confidence in what I do from the simple fact that I know I represent my own life. Votes: 3

My mother is an actress and very well known in France; hence, I move to London to start my own life. Votes: 3

My own cabaret is constantly evolving with what is occurring in my own life, so motherhood is a natural addition to it. Votes: 3

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play. Votes: 3

I find in the Psalms much the same range of mood and expression as I perceive within my own life of prayer. Votes: 3

Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece. Votes: 3

I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life. Votes: 3

Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would. Votes: 3

Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island. Votes: 3

I'm just singing about my own life. Singing about all the little stories in my life and the things I've been through. Votes: 3

So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly. Votes: 3

The last thing in the world that I would want to know, in my own life, is when I'm going to pass away. Votes: 3

I read Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them and I found frightening pieces that related to"¦my own life. Votes: 3

When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life. Votes: 3

when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life. Votes: 3

I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am. Votes: 3

I had to be my own person and live my own life if I wanted to be happy, and I just did it. Votes: 3

Talking about adversity that I've walked through in my own life or hearing an artist talk about their own adversity makes me feel vulnerable. Votes: 3

In my own life, when I'm not working, I do wear a lot of black. I think I do feel very comfortable in black. Votes: 3

Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I'm away for much of my own life. I want to be better at staying connected. Votes: 3

Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into other lives, and I come back to my own with greater contentment. Votes: 3

Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own life. Votes: 3

It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved by anyone again. Votes: 3

I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun. Votes: 3

I can be capable of anything if I allow myself to be. I really realized what an obstacle I was being in my own life. Votes: 3

I see that a lot in my own life and in the lives of others.Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God? Votes: 3

Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life. Votes: 3

I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again. Votes: 3

You know, I consistently change in my own life so the roles I'm suitable for also change, and that's a really nice thing about this profession. Votes: 3

I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait. Votes: 3

I don't reverberate to victimhood, probably because of my own life. I refused to become a victim myself, so it's not one of my big stories. Votes: 3

I would say that as I've gotten older, I trust my intuition more; I allow myself more freedom both musically, creatively and my own life existentially. Votes: 3

Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel. Votes: 3

You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?' Votes: 3

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. Votes: 3

A big part of country music is a way of life, at least from my standpoint. That's how I craft my music from my own life experiences. Votes: 3

In my own life, I'm pretty good at choosing between good and bad. It's the choices between good and good I find the most difficult to make. Votes: 3

I've found in my own life, if you try to struggle against what the universe is telling you, you set yourself up for more of a battle. Votes: 3

In my own life if I knew I was going to pass away I'd love to sit down and resolve every issue so I could go peacefully. Votes: 3

Part of my gestalt is that I still feel a little bit like a wallflower. Even in my own life. I talk about myself behind my back. Votes: 3

I've found in my own life that if my writing isn't going well, not much else will. It is the one constant, the key to everything else. Votes: 3

I don't know how to save my own life, so anything they've found in what I've written that saved theirs - I can't take responsibility for it. Votes: 3

I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction. Votes: 3

That's what happened when my own life crumbled. The people who came into my life bolstered me to take more risks, to be even more true to myself. Votes: 3

My life contains so many other things; I have my children, my grandchildren, my two dogs and a big place in the country. I have my own life. Votes: 3

I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me. Votes: 3

As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer. Votes: 3

You know why I got involved in politics? The government is now a majority partner in my life. I am now a minority partner in my own life. Votes: 3

It took awhile for me to get used to speaking candidly about my own life. I got into it, and it turned out to be a wonderful experience. Votes: 3

I just look at my own life, which is full of error as all life is. I have done plenty of things that I am not proud of. Votes: 3

In my own life I like to be poised and have a positive outlook on life, and I'm leading by example to my children and people around me. Votes: 3

My friends would certainly call me out if I didn't say that I like to create a bit of chaos and stir things up in my own life. Votes: 3

I found a very diabolical way of making myself suffer - not in the same way [my mother ] was suffering but to prevent me from enjoying my own life. Votes: 3

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me. Votes: 3

In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food. Votes: 3

One of the hardest things I've encountered whilst working on 'Pippin' is the consistent irony, as a reflection from the core material of the show, within my own life. Votes: 3

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life. Votes: 3

I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by turns had flung A shadow across me. Votes: 3

Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life. Votes: 3

With most of the events in the books [ Bridget Jones Diaries ] I draw a little bit from my own life and some from what I see happening around me. Votes: 3

If I call it pain, and try to touch it With my hands, my own life, It lies still and the music thins, A pulse felt for through garments. Votes: 3

I was so afraid to feel free to enjoy my own life if my mother was sick and suffering everyday of her's. I didn't think I had the right. Votes: 3

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom. Votes: 3

I love efficiencies and I love solving big problems, and I love working with people who create efficiencies. I love creating efficiencies in my own life on a day-to-day basis. Votes: 3

But I had no plans to end my own life, and accidents couldn't be predicted. Neither could murder, unless my aunt and uncle were planning to take me out themselves. Votes: 3

My music is a mix of everything, mostly my own life. I just write about things that mean something and that I can write about. There's no point in pretending. Votes: 3

[Shwing] the really naked stuff I've dealt with in my own life, my own therapy and relationships - for me it just feels like a film I'm really proud of. Votes: 3

I just try to use my own life to build a human song: something that people can relate to in some way. It's not like the psychiatrist's couch or anything. Votes: 3

I learned a great deal about myself, and it forced me to be introspective in a way that I'm not typically, but "reporting" on my own life became emotionally exhausting. Votes: 3

Teenagers can spot hypocrisy a mile away and here I was telling them how to cope when they witnessed the shambles of my own life and how I was living. Votes: 3

...a disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life. Votes: 3

If you take my own life, the longer you stay in a country, you almost lose your former self and become this third-party person who is caught in between two worlds. Votes: 3

With 'Fellow Travelers,' I think I was consciously trying to imagine what my own life as a gay man might have been like if I'd been born exactly 20 years earlier. Votes: 3

I can look back at my own life and see where a few words of praise have sharply changed my entire future. Can't you say the same thing about your life? Votes: 3

People say that every person plays the lead role in the movie of their own lives. I don't. I play a side character even in my own life's movie. ~ Mrigank Kashyap Votes: 3

If I would put my talent on the table, if I would control my impulses, if I would make decisions and plans for my own life, then I could be successful. Votes: 3

What I've seen in my own life is that when I get something important done it's because of a lot of other people - some who get credit, some who don't. Votes: 3

The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and work. Votes: 3

The message of transformation and how we all can live from our heart, not just from our head, was a very important message for me to learn in my own life. Votes: 3

I've seen my own death in dreams like this and it's helped me appreciate life more. I've also seen my own life in dreams and it's helped me appreciate death more. Votes: 3

Instead of always asking how to get others to approve of you... learn to ask: What do I really want, the applause of the crowds or to quietly have my own life? Votes: 3

How do I create something out of nothing? And how do I create my own life? I think it is by questioning, and saying to myself that there are no absolute truths. Votes: 3

In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either. Votes: 3

The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And thats a thing I have in my own life. You have to trust your instincts and keep trying. Votes: 3

I really didn't care. I'd do something to somebody and walk in front of them the next day like it never happened. I had very very low value on my own life. Votes: 3

I'm always identifying some fallacy in my own life. I'm sort of making fun of myself by exploring and unpacking just why I'm sort of automatically thrown to be a certain way. Votes: 3

Sometimes when a character in a novel is difficult for me to enter, I sue something in myself or in my own life as a doorway into that character's mind and emotions. Votes: 3

It happened the way I come up with any story, which is that I took elements of my own life and put them into the story, but in a very mixed-up way. Votes: 3

The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And that's a thing I have in my own life. You have to trust your instincts and keep trying. Votes: 3

My very first products were hand-made, one-of-a-kind pins. When I finally realized I could repeat a phrase to make multiples, intellectuals gone bad, a fairly succinct description of my own life, seemed appropriate. Votes: 3

It is true that I have been studying both humility and pride for many years for the purpose of weakening pride in my own life and cultivating humility by the grace of God. Votes: 3

Jesus used the carefree attitude of the birds to underscore the fact that worrying is unnatural. I am learning in my own life, day by day, to keep my mind centered on Christ. Votes: 3

From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited any readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire. Votes: 3

I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that. Votes: 3

When I started singing about my life and what I was going through, I felt more confident. It was my own life, I was being myself, I was telling people what was happening. Votes: 3

I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of existence from day to day. Votes: 3

I always like the physical comedy because I actually do a lot of it in my own life, but not on purpose. I am the klutziest person on the planet. It's easy for me. Votes: 3

It's really hard to take that step-not only do I believe in something, I believe in it enough that I'm willing to set my own life on fire and burn it to the ground. Votes: 3

There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself. Votes: 3

I feel that Nagai Kafu was a writer who cold stitch together apparently meaningless moments like these into a lyrical whole, and has enhanced my ability to do the same with my own life. Votes: 3

In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come. Votes: 3

In my own life, I do not live like an effective altruist. An effective altruist would really disapprove of my life. I don't give enough to charity and I still have both my kidneys. Votes: 3

I've always been obsessed with things that are half animal and half human - like mermaids and Minotaurs - because they are trapped in an animal body. And I felt trapped in my own life. Votes: 3

Today, I count myself blessed to have become a photographer. To be able to articulate the experiences of the voiceless, to bring their identity to the forefront, gives meaning and purpose to my own life. Votes: 3

I think expression is at it's best when it comes from an honest place, so I always try to use my own life experiences, feelings, struggles, frustrations etc. as the catalyst for my song writing. Votes: 3

It's easier to write from my own life, and it's also more fun. I always write about relationships, for instance, whether they're romantic relationships, friendships, encounters... there's always a lesson to be learned from them. Votes: 3

Most of my story ideas come from my childhood. Sometimes they hatch from stories my parents told me, sometimes they come from experiences in my own life, and sometimes they are inspired by mere moments. Votes: 3

In a way then, the Divine Principle, this new revelation, is the documentary of my life. It is my own life experience. The Divine Principle is in me, and I am in the Divine Principle. Votes: 3

The entertainment industry is pretty nuts, and having had that experience outside of it and going to university has really made a big difference. It's important to me to feel like I have my own life. Votes: 3

I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes. Votes: 3

I think it's really hard to work in a city where you live too, because I get so absorbed with the movie that I become a bad friend and a bad participant in my own life. Votes: 3

... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is easy for me to kill, that is because it is difficult for me to die. Votes: 3

I'm so happy to be able to give kids the opportunity to learn about amazing world of dance and music that I've have been lucky enough to make such a big part of my own life. Votes: 3

I haven't lived my life through my daughters. Some parents devote everything to their children, which must be so hard, and it's very beautiful. But I'm a working parent, so I've always kept my own life. Votes: 3

In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory. Votes: 3

Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places. Votes: 3

I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to the law made for murderers when I deprive myself of my own life. Votes: 3

My life has been such a blur since I was 18, 19 years old. I haven't even had time to contemplate my own life. By forcing yourself to write your life story you learn a great deal about yourself. Votes: 3

I always felt that one day I would have to make the change in my own life, bite the bullet and see what it is to be a composer who conducts rather than the other way around. Votes: 3

And whenever I'd complain or was upset about something in my own life, my mother had the same advice: "Darling, just change the channel. You are in control of the clicker. Don't replay the bad, scary movie." Votes: 3

I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story. Votes: 3

Sometimes I think the only memories I have are those that I've created around photographs of me as a child. Maybe I'm creating my own life. I distrust any memories I do have. They may be fictions, too. Votes: 3

I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world. Votes: 3

Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it's my life, but writing is also part of me too, so I did it, and in so doing, took responsibility for my own life. Votes: 3

I think the whole mission of being here on Earth is to accept what you have, and my journey was to accept my own life and not pretend anything else. I think that's what we all struggle with. Votes: 3

In my own life, I've seen myself ramping up the amount of text I consume digitally. For me, it's the weight and inconvenience issue - I want anything that will spare me having to carry around reams of paper. Votes: 3

I think my perception of my own life is different and the fact that Lauren and myself are together. I've never felt this free or happy and so that permeates onto my onstage persona and to my working environment. Votes: 3

I think all artists are only interested in a couple of themes, really. I'm primarily interested in change and connection as being this restorative force. I write about them because that's what I think about in my own life. Votes: 3

In my own life as a reader I experience real moments of alienation when a writer feels too perfect, or like even the flaws they are admitting are somehow noble, or dysfunctional in an overly edgy, aesthetically pleasing way. Votes: 3

Out of the blue, Paul reported feeling bouts of calm euphoria, a mystical sense of all's-right-with-his-life-and-the-universe, a bright future in sight. ... I knew well the state of vigorous calm he meant, a frequent visitor throughout my own life. [p. 290] Votes: 3

In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living. Votes: 3

I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life. Votes: 3

No, I'll take responsibility for my own life, I am going to make a decision. And you know, to this day, I would raise flags on all public buildings to celebrate the chance I had to make that decision. Votes: 3

I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far from feeling guilty, it was the first time that I had taken responsibility for my own life. Votes: 3

Me, when I'm utterly exhausted by it all, when my skin breaks out, on those lonely evenings when I call my friends again and again and nobody's home, then I despise my own life - my birth, my upbringing, everything. Votes: 3

I don't really worry so much about image. I try to just live my own life, my personal life, to my own sense of morality. In terms of the kinds of characters that I play, well, they could be anything. Votes: 3

A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you. Votes: 3

I can't comment on any outside perception. I'm happy to come out and talk about movies that I've worked on in a setting like this. Otherwise, I have my own life that I live which is very different and private. Votes: 3

Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has. Look at Woody Allen's funny movies - all the humor comes out of sad stuff. Sometimes you have to laugh, no matter what life deals you. Votes: 3

I am not interested in your fine calibrations of empathy or your great mission to protect the river of history. I just to live my own life, and I want to spend it having my own private fucked-up little emotions. Votes: 3

I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me. Votes: 3

I was being hated for about 40 or 50 years by the whole world, but it did not destroy me, and it did not ruin my health. And the reason is because I just did not answer them. I had my own life. Votes: 3

My years as a therapist working with abuse and neglect families taught me at least one important lesson for my own life. Never judge until you can see through the eyes of that person you are judging, and then... never judge. Votes: 3

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life. Votes: 3

When I go to movies and I love the movie, it's because it feels like it articulated something about how we're living now, and also gives me some insight into my own life. I feel actually altered after having seen it. Votes: 3

I began my career creating art for an animated feature film, and it has been a life-long dream to tell some of the story of my own life - the story behind my art - through the medium of motion pictures. Votes: 3

In order to make myself recognized by the Other, I must risk my own life. To risk one's life, in fact, is to reveal oneself as not-bound to the objective form or to any determined existence "” as not-bound to life. Votes: 3

Again with the us. My heart beat a little faster. How many times had I dreamed of being one of the chosen few? To be truly accepted by the in crowd instead of sitting on the sidelines of my own life? Votes: 3

Girlfriend and 100 Percent Fun were my two peeks, around '92 and '96. The reality is that the times I had the most media success, sold lots of records and played bigger shows, I had the least control of my own life. Votes: 3

Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights. Votes: 3

I feel like I have been able to notice throughout the incremental march of history during the course of my own lifetime patterns emerging, and there's a sort of a rubber band effect that happens where social growth and change is concerned. Votes: 3

I'm probably more personal when I'm acting than at any other time. More open, more direct. Because it allows me to be something that I can't always feel comfortable with when I'm living my own life, you know? Because it's make- believe. Votes: 3

When I did 'Tokyo Drift,' a lot of the philosophy that Han lived by I have actually gone through in my own life. As I got older, I realized that I really believe in those philosophies, like the importance of family. Votes: 3

What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I hardly knew? Probably, I would have looked the other way at best or become another apologist for evil at worst. Votes: 3

My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin. Votes: 3

As I look back on my own life, I recognize this simple truth: The greatest opportunities were the scariest lions. Part of me has wanted to play it safe, but I've learned that taking no risks is the greatest risk of all. Votes: 3

I guess in my own life, privacy, anonymity, and the mystery of being lost are important. I also feel that people are mysterious and complex no matter what they do, and no matter how hard they try to reveal their own mystery. Votes: 3

I sleep at night; I do not think about anything. I put everything in my bag and go to sleep. Whatever you can do to me, it does not affect me. I started my life, my own life. I did not inherit it. Votes: 3

I am very active on the Internet. In 2007, I made one film every day and posted it on my website. That was a 365-day project, really exhausting, but I still put a lot of stuff on - from life, friends, my own life. Votes: 3

It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just how. The only possible answers are religious. . . . I find a need for God in the universe and in my own life. Votes: 3

I'm as heterosexual as any person need be. I'm open about my relationships - or lack thereof - in my own life, because I want to make the case that gay isn't contagious. It's not something that you can catch or learn or choose. Votes: 3

I'm such a lucky guy. I've been able to make my own decisions for my own life for the last fifty years...or sixty ... well maybe not sixty. Even though I think I was making my own decisions at the tender age of eight. Votes: 3

When you practice Buddhism, you have to always self-reflect, and you can't avoid your problems. That makes me understand human beings better. I feel that the more I do that in my own life, the more I can see how to play a character. Votes: 3

I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone. Votes: 3

What I use from my own life is not the facts, it's the emotion. It's how I felt about something. It has nothing to do with facts at all. You can get those anywhere. It's the feelings of childhood that you need to know. Votes: 3

As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own life in my writing. It has always been clear to me that the stories of each other's lives are our best textbooks. Votes: 3

I have respect for what other people believe. What I believe in my own life is that it's a search for how I can do things better, whether it's being a better man or a better father or finding ways for myself to improve. Votes: 3

A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire. Votes: 3

I have a fondness for writing about precocious, troubled teenagers, who are alienating, but kind of endearing. It's from remembering so clearly that time in my own life. I experienced myself as more dramatically troubled than I was, but I just remember how it felt. Votes: 3

So much of my own life inspires what I write. Whether it's work, family, friends, motherhood, I am a writer who tends to write what she knows. In 'Revenge Wears Prada,' a great deal of my own life finds its way into the book. Votes: 3

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love. Votes: 3

Even in my own life, there are memories I have that are difficult to explain - happenings that are so odd and unaccountably weird, that it is difficult to imagine they were not the result of prolonged and frequent contact with aliens throughout my life. Votes: 3

In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much," she said. "See, that's why I left a job at a big law firm for a career in public service. Votes: 3

In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit. Votes: 3

In my own life, when I was most inspired by a teacher, it always involved a real dialogue, a looseness and a real caring and compassion. It was not without rigor, not without discipline, not without standards, but all that was done out of love. Votes: 3

I believe in me, in my view of the world. I believe in my responsibility for my own destiny, guilt for my own sins, merit for my own good deeds, determination of my own life. I don't believe in miracles, I believe in hard work. Votes: 3

With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a metaphor and for months or sometimes years I'll exhaust all of my emotional reaction to this issue by making it enormous on the page. Votes: 3

I guess in my own life I don't really think much about manliness too much. I feel like a lot of men that I know don't sit around thinking, "How am I supposed to be a man?" I don't think that I have to prove anything. Votes: 3

I always write things that entertain me, and one of the things that I find really enjoyable to explore is the idea of love. I like looking at my own life and my friends and family and how love changes who you are. It fascinates me. Votes: 3

My music touches on things I am concerned with in my own life - the idea of a woman's role in society, sexuality, desire, monogamy, fantasy and glamour. That's what keeps me alive, and if I couldn't keep creating that, I'd fall into a bit of heap. Votes: 3

I have struggled with perfectionism and I think it's a really damaging thing in my own life. When we put that perfectionism on someone else, it just hurts relationships whereas grace and trusting someone else's heart is a really, really incredible and important part of any relationship. Votes: 3

I can only speak for myself. But what I write and how I write is done in order to save my own life. And I mean that literally. For me literature is a way of knowing that I am not hallucinating, that whatever I feel/know is. Votes: 3

I don't know if there is really an objective truth about either. I liken this to what Buddhism says about the individual, that change starts with the individual. I think it is really about purifying your own actions, and I have seen that in my own life. Votes: 3

I used to get really pissed off that my life was so dictated by when this Jesus guy was born and when he was dying every year. I felt really resentful that I couldn't get on with my own life because I was so busy with his. Votes: 3

From my perspective, music allows me to escape from the world of what is happening right in front of me... to the world of my thoughts, my dreams, my hopes and ideas - for the world, for my own life, for the day, even for the moment. Votes: 3

Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesn't mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes. Votes: 3

Sometimes things feel hopeless. Not always within my own life - but looking outward, it seems like rough times lie ahead of us. The world seems to be kind of caving in on itself in a lot of ways. But I try to look on the bright side. Votes: 3

I felt like a Tinker toy kid building my own self out of one of those toy building sets; for as she laid her life before me, I reassembled the tableau of her words like a picture puzzle, and as I did, so my own life was rebuilt. Votes: 3

It's terribly wrong to stuff that sacred citadel with junk you know darn well is bad for you, I came to realize I was barreling pell-mell down the road leading to disease, disability and premature destruction of the most precious thing I could ever be given-my own life. Votes: 3

Mindfulness is attentiveness, moment to moment. What's happening right now and what's coming up in me in response to what's happening right now. Importantly, this is in the service of being able to choose wisely so that I avoid complicating my own life and the lives of others. Votes: 3

I think if I could do it over again - as much as I loved meeting the people I did on the films after 'Matilda' - I wish that I had stopped after 'Matilda.' I wish that I had just focused on my own life for a while. Votes: 3

I want you to be happy, and him to be happy. And yet when you walk that aisle to meet him and join yourselves forever you will walk an invisible path of the shards of my heart Tessa. I would give over my own life for either of yours. Votes: 3

I wouldn't change a thing in my own life, but I'd like to go back in time anyway though, just to some sort of eras that I wish I'd lived in - like the '60s. I'd love to have been in London in the '60s, partying away. Votes: 3

It's been said that the first hour is the rudder of the day. I've found this to be very true in my own life. If I'm lazy or haphazard in my actions during the first hour after I wake up, I tend to have a fairly lazy and unfocused day. Votes: 3

My life is a series of Hollywood orgies and Kabbalah center brunches with the cast of Friends. At least that's what my handlers tell me. I'm actually too valuable to live my own life and spend most of my days in a vegetable crisper to remain fake news anchor fresh. Votes: 3

It's kind of a mystery to me, as far as my own life experiences and what I've witnessed - why some people can just move on through traumatic experiences, in childhood particularly, and why other people are just paralyzed by it. I just don't know how and why that is. Votes: 3

My life and career is my own adventure. Votes: 2

I like to control my own personal life. Votes: 2

My father raised me to think independently and follow my own path in life. Votes: 2

I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days. Votes: 2

My own laugh is the real thing and I've had it all my life. Votes: 2

Left to my own devices I'd get up at midday every day of my life. Votes: 2

I wrote a book on life coaching, because my life became my own reference point how to live. Votes: 2

The only theatre I do is my own. Somehow, my life is the only life that I can play. Votes: 2

I part-own a bookshop for some strange coincidence of reasons, and it is one of the best things I part-own in my life, or own in my life. I do not know, it just feels great. Votes: 2

My life is not my own business. Votes: 0

My breasts have a life of their own. Votes: 0

My life carries its own meaning in itself. Votes: 0

My own passion, all my life, has been non-collecting. Votes: 0

I want to live life on my own terms. Votes: 0

I write to save someone's life, probably my own Votes: 0

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life. Votes: 0

Life is for my own to live my own way. Votes: 0

I always have my own attitude towards everything in life. Votes: 0

My vocal cords lived their own life, wild and free. Votes: 0

I have seen life's purpose, and now it is my own. Votes: 0

Abstinence works, I know it from my own personal life, abstinence works. Votes: 0

My life is a party thrown for me by my own decisions. Votes: 0

I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood. Votes: 0

My life is like a movie and I do my own stunts Votes: 0

My career has kind of taken on a life of its own. Votes: 0

I would never ever talk about my own personal life in an interview. Votes: 0

May my life flow like a river, ever surprised by its own unfolding. Votes: 0

I'm an intense person. My own vision of life has always been heavy. Votes: 0

I just live life on my own terms. And I smile a lot. Votes: 0

I've never hit a woman in my life. Not even my own mother. Votes: 0

My life has been awaiting you. Your footfall was my own heart's beat. Votes: 0

I was a bigger-than-life persona before I was anyone in my own mind. Votes: 0

The children-my own and other people's-became the passion of my personal and professional life. Votes: 0

I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure. Votes: 0

Gel doesn't work in my hair because it has a life of its own. Votes: 0

The music itself could never take the place of my own passion in life. Votes: 0

I can build a happy life only on the foundation of my own nature. Votes: 0

I am unlimited in my own ability to create the good in my life. Votes: 0

Every scar has a life of its own and a space in my heart. Votes: 0

Most of my life I have needed more time to be on my own. Votes: 0

Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with. Votes: 0

I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated. Votes: 0

All I ask of Life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance. Votes: 0

Did you ever realize you have more opinions about my life than your own life? Votes: 0

I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness. Votes: 0

My own sex life is very monogamous and happy . . . just a happy married sex life! Votes: 0

My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular. Votes: 0

Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val Votes: 0

I no longer own or control the businesses which I have spent my life building up. Votes: 0

Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life? Votes: 0

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life. Votes: 0

Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. Votes: 0

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons. Votes: 0

The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd! Votes: 0

I play by my own rules so please think twice before you step into my life. Votes: 0

The whole romantic part of my life was a wipeout. I didn't even own a belt. Votes: 0

I want to move on with my life and do something where I get my own voice. Votes: 0

And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful! Votes: 0

I have always liked clothes - throughout my life, my saving grace has been my own vanity. Votes: 0

If I cannot give consent to my own death, whose body is this? Who owns my life? Votes: 0

I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered !My life is my own. Votes: 0

Why don't you learn from my mistakes? It takes half your life to learn from your own. Votes: 0

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom. Votes: 0

I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet. Votes: 0

For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself. Votes: 0

My life is a discipline, a prison: I live for my own work, without which I am nothing. Votes: 0

I've always been my own person. Everything I've ever done in my life I did the hard way. Votes: 0

My mother always told me, 'Don't get married. Make your own life. You don't need a man.' Votes: 0

I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false. Votes: 0

Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about. Votes: 0

I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations. Votes: 0

This is motherhood for you,' said my own mother. 'Going through life with your heart outside your body. Votes: 0

The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life. Votes: 0

I've learned through my own experiences that working toward an objective in your life can change who you are. Votes: 0

Working out is really the top thing in my life that I do for my own self-esteem and self-worth. Votes: 0

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life. Votes: 0

What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can. Votes: 0

Paris is the only place where I feel that I lead a life that I can call my own. Votes: 0

You can’t stop my voice cause You don't own my life but Do what you want (with my body) Votes: 0

I am master of my own destiny, and I can make my life anything that I wish it to be. Votes: 0

Looking at my own prom photograph reminds me of how significant that moment was - and how fleeting life is. Votes: 0

My life has not been the best possible. The slave of impulse, I have rushed forward to my own destruction. Votes: 0

Life keeps throwing me curve balls and I don't even own a bat. At least my dodging skills are improving. Votes: 0

There were a lot of people, I found, whod rather watch me live my life than live their own life. Votes: 0

I am trying for nothing so hard in my own personal life as how not to be respectable when married. Votes: 0

I went from an innocent child to a national television star. My career took on a life of its own. Votes: 0

Love you more than life itself, more than the sun and the air. You own my soul, Ella May. Micha Votes: 0

Paul Simon is my absolute hero. He's one of a kind. He wrote his own ticket in life by being himself. Votes: 0

'Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind' was born out of my own journey of self-discovery within both my personal and professional life. Votes: 0

I've created my own career in my life, and I've had a lot of fun doing it. I think that's good. Votes: 0

My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own. Votes: 0

Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life. Votes: 0

My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II. Votes: 0

Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are. Votes: 0

Even though I pretty much made my own decisions early on, when I was younger I tended to overbook my life. Votes: 0

So, it's cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life. Votes: 0

I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine. Votes: 0

At times, my nostalgia for our family life as it used to be--for our own imperfect, cherished, irretrievable past--is nearly overwhelming. Votes: 0

I've never compromised who I am not ever. If I've gotten anywhere in my life it's been on my own merits. Votes: 0

Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind' was born out of my own journey of self-discovery within both my personal and professional life. Votes: 0

By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver. Votes: 0

My own life has had so many twists that I keep thinking I'll have one blessing that is not in disguise. Votes: 0

My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities. Votes: 0

I understand reversal of fortune; that usually has come through my own hand, but you know, you live life on life's terms. Votes: 0

No Blame: The most liberating and empowering day of my life was the day I freed myself from my own self-destructive nonsense. Votes: 0

In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural. Votes: 0

I carry on in my own narrow little tunnel and we have very different experiences of life even though we live together. Votes: 0

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied. Votes: 0

I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever. Votes: 0

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture. Votes: 0

My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life. Votes: 0

Life was good to me. I had a great wife, good kids, money, my own health -- and I'm lonely and bored. Votes: 0

I want to keep my own guard, I want to keep my secrets, I want to keep my private life for me. Votes: 0

I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience. Votes: 0

When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life. Votes: 0

All my life I have studies the peculiar powers of music. It has a force of its own that few would deny. Votes: 0

I clean my own utensils, my house and I even travel alone. I don't know what the life of a superstar is like. Votes: 0

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me. Votes: 0

The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans. Votes: 0

When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me. Votes: 0

I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village. Votes: 0

I own my life. And only mine. And so I shall appreciate my person. And so I shall make proper use of myself. Votes: 0

I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story. Votes: 0

I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all. Votes: 0

I am protective of my own personal life, but I must confess that I enjoy watching people that don't mind telling it all. Votes: 0

I had three jobs in college. The best day of my life was when I paid off my student loans, on my own. Votes: 0

The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own. Votes: 0

I do a lot of laughing at my own self in life, so I think I come at things with a pretty easygoing view. Votes: 0

I admitted that I did not understand life. What I meant was that I am bewildered by human hearts and motivations, including my own. Votes: 0

Marriage? I ain't got time for a husband or child. All my life I've looked after myself as if I was my own child. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

So the life I have made May seem wrong to you But, I've never been surer It's my life to ruin My own way... Votes: 0

The last 16 years of my daddys life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that. Votes: 0

I don't always trust my own instincts. It would be nice if someone else would tell me what I should do with my life! Votes: 0

I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs. Votes: 0

I've been a perfect lady my entire life, and somebody just tried to shoot me, anyway. Grandmother was wrong. Goodness is not its own reward. Votes: 0

My own experience is that there is no real effort in life that is not done better under encouragement and approval of our fellow men. Votes: 0

My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible. Votes: 0

In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States is one of the really great moral crises that we face. Votes: 0

I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny. Votes: 0

I'm just a tiny person from a humdrum neighbourhood, so I grew up worshipping 'Bond' pictures and dreaming of a life bigger than my own. Votes: 0

Personal inspection at zero altitude. The stories come from my life - if not my own experiences, then about topics and subjects that interest me. Votes: 0

My tattoos are like a scrapbook of my life. Sometimes you don't feel comfortable in your own skin, so covering it up with pictures helps Votes: 0

For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own. Votes: 0

I found a piece of paradise to call my own, and life is worth living again, for to love you, to me, is to live. Votes: 0

My life is mine and I form it. Tell yourself this often. Create your own life now, using your beliefs as an artist uses color. Votes: 0

My mother implanted in me as a young girl...you can either be an actor in your own life, or a reactor in somebody else's. Votes: 0

No one can live my life for me. If I am wise, I shall begin today to build my own truer and better world from within. Votes: 0

Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your footfall was my own heart's beat. Votes: 0

What am I grateful for? Aside from my own great life, you mean? I'm just grateful that my wife, and daughter, and dogs are all healthy. Votes: 0

My eyebrows - they have a life of their own. I don't arch them on purpose; I don't do, like, arching exercises or anything, I promise! Votes: 0

People project their own dreams, fantasies, and prejudices onto my life. So people are either fans, or jealous, or disagree. Everybody marches to a different drummer. Votes: 0

I don't care about anybody's opinion - I care that my movies move you in a way to think about things and consider your own life. Votes: 0

I make no apologies for the fact that I have a religious life of my own. I'm speaking as a Christian because I'm speaking as myself. Votes: 0

I learned long ago that the most effective way to compete is to play your own game, and I've been competing with men my whole life. Votes: 0

Your unwillingness to change to my view point is purely on the justifiable basis that you have your own strongly held beliefs about important life issues. Votes: 0

~My children are my life ... It's not like I don't have my own wants and and dreams anymore - it's just that the kids come first.~ Votes: 0

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused. Votes: 0

My characters seem real because they are drawn from the realities of my life. I didn't have to research their pain; I just tapped into my own. Votes: 0

Damn her he said to himself. What good does it do my risking my life? She doesn't care whether we own an ostrich or not. Nothing penetrates. Votes: 0

My own inclination is to skew towards humor. They say that some people view life as a comedy, others as a tragedy. Me? Comedy all the way. Votes: 0

My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe. Votes: 0

I am who I am, I enjoy life in my own way and that is hell of a lot more than most people can say for themselves Votes: 0

After Arthur sent me away for my own good, it' like my life switched from color to black and white--like the ending of The Wizard of Oz. Votes: 0

I don't come from money or an educated family background or any sort of supportive family life, so all of my choices are made on my own. Votes: 0

I've had three of my own children and spent my professional life thinking about children. And yet I still find my relation to my children deeply puzzling. Votes: 0

I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better I appreciate my own existence Votes: 0

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. Votes: 0

When I'm with you, my world is complete. When I touch you, I understand the meaning of life. When I lost you, I completely shattered. You. Own. Me. Votes: 0

Just going through a lot in my life, becoming more confident in myself, writing my own music and just really getting in the studio and just doing it. Votes: 0

Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed For a dream's sake. Votes: 0

I was my own teacher and pupil, in a comradeship so firm and persevering that the most trying incidents of my life served only to strengthen the union... Votes: 0

Everything seemed meaningless to me. All of a sudden. My own life, the lives of others, of animals of plants, the whole world. It no longer fitted together. Votes: 0

My son, be rich and live your own life! Tell yourself that you're the incarnation of an ancient aristocracy. Model yourself on the feudal barons. You're a warrior" Votes: 0

Mine own people do not care for me, John Carter; I am too unlike them. It is a sad fate, since I must live my life amongst them. Votes: 0

I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image of his own soul. Votes: 0

It is the meaning of what my life has been since a youth "“ to try to fight for the dignity and the freedom of my own people. Votes: 0

One of the happiest days of my life is when I made five or six hundred pesos from a crop of watermelons I raise all on my own. Votes: 0

We all have our own purpose in life and I feel very strongly that I have a bigger purpose than giving to just my immediate family and friends. Votes: 0

It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it anyway: it's my life. Votes: 0

I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places. Votes: 0

Though man or angel judge my life and read it like an open scroll, And weigh my heart, I have judge more just than any"”my own soul. Votes: 0

I'm not saying that I am all of my characters, but for me to bring a character to life, you've got to be able to find your own truth. Votes: 0

My own life has been doubly disconnected, as I've written books under two different names. As an author, your name almost becomes a brand; readers know what to expect. Votes: 0

Through a huge duration of my life, someone has always picked up after me. And when you're on your own and you're trying to be independent, it's definitely different. Votes: 0

The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler. Votes: 0

None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter. Votes: 0

I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island. Votes: 0

If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived. Votes: 0

I was a weird tomboy most of my life. I didn't see the power in my own female form for quite a long time. Maybe that's a good thing. Votes: 0

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it. Votes: 0

In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers. Votes: 0

Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way. Votes: 0

My own life has in some ways been a decades-long tour of the sibling experience. I have full sibs, I have half-sibs, and for a time I had step-sibs. Votes: 0

It's been very hard, after being mostly a mom, to develop an adult life of my own. And not being married anymore, I have to come up with challenges. Votes: 0

When I look back on my marriages, or the breakups, sure I know the pain I went through, but that's part of life and it has its own value. Votes: 0

Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it's my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers. Votes: 0

I could only tolerate an afternoon if I took a triple amount of the stated dose of valium prescribed by my GP (who would soon take his own life). Votes: 0

I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naivety has no peer but my own. Votes: 0

In some ways I've lived my life like a man, made my own decisions, etc. I've been as terrified as the next person, but you've got to keep going. Votes: 0

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories. Votes: 0

I told my parents, 'You've taken care of me all my life, helped me through college. You've been awesome, but now it's my turn to be my own man.' Votes: 0

I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them. Votes: 0

My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted to one purpose, to give back to India her ancient freedom. Votes: 0

Life will deal me many different hands, some good, some bad (maybe they've already been dealt), but from here on in, I'll be turning my own cards. —Alton Richard Votes: 0

My own life is accessible to people still. I could see a guy walking down the street and, even though I'm famous, I got more in common with this guy than, like, Brad Pitt. Votes: 0