- Love
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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
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to have a protest folk band in high school, and I wrote all my own songs. Then, in the B-52s, we would write collectively.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I grew up, I read and loved many fairy-tale retellings and began to think about writing my own reimagining of 'Rapunzel.'
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first novel, 'In the Drink,' begun when I was 29 and floundering and published when I was 36 and married, was about a 29-year-old woman whose life was even more screwed up than my own had been.
- Derision
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- Nov 07, 2020
In fact, I can confidently say that 'South Park's' penchant for unbridled derision has been directly responsible for my own joy in some times of terrible sadness.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm somewhat in my own cloud.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
The year I turned 16, I spent the weeks before Christmas dropping hints to my parents about how much I wanted - no, needed - my own transportation.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own fashion sense has been influenced by 'We'll Take Manhattan.' It's gotten a little better.
- Discussed
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 1950s in the United States, few music lovers were listening to chamber music. Daddy played Bach and Haydn on our phonograph for me. Not only did I become familiar with the form; he discussed the concerti. My own head start. My own Head Start.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've told people before that I don't want to be a part of a genre; I want to be my own genre. I want to create it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020