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- Nov 07, 2020
My Own Quotes
Owning it, good and bad.
Several of these are about carving out space to do things your own way after finishing a long chapter of work. For more first-person lines, see our I Am quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an inventor, it's a rite of passage to have an engine. I'd like to have my own engine someday.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
My roommate at Yale University introduced me to the auteur theory of filmmaking. I soon became a big fan of the works of John Ford, Kenji Mizoguchi, Ernst Lubitsch, and Stan Brakhage. I then decided to make my own films!
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really important for cycling and for women to be on a sporting stage which is in the mainstream and across the board, not just my own sport.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just so that we are clear on this, I am in favour of teaching children about different beliefs. I am not in favour of indoctrinating them in any particular belief, including my own: these issues should be presented as beliefs, not as fact.
- Exaggerating
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been obsequious toward Western civilization, exaggerating its merits and, at the same time, exaggerating my own merits.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always my own person.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
We usually let our husbands negotiate the house and the cars. But I never had a husband, so I was always buying my own houses and cars, so I knew how to negotiate.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to come through with my own voice and, hopefully, have it affect people. I want people to know that I'm not an Elvis impersonator.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have enjoyed writing my own stuff, and it's been a privilege to be able to scrap some money together to be able to make films from my own scripts.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.
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- Nov 07, 2020