- I Am
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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
- Said
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to be a commentator of my own work. If you've written the story, you've said what you want to say.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Virginia Woolf's literature really transformed my own ideas about how to formally represent the passage of time and how time affects us. Specifically, the benchmarks are 'Mrs. Dalloway,' 'To the Lighthouse' and 'Orlando,' all of which have time as a central conceit.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never good academically. It was mainly my own fault.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though I am Chairman of Dole Food Company, I do most of my own grocery shopping.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm used to doing big undertakings with my own money.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sew my own shoes. Other male dancers don't, but I like it one way, and I've learned to do it that way.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I watched the night unfold from beginning to end on my own here in my flat in Budapest where I've been working for the last six months, and when it was announced that Barack Obama was indeed president-elect, I wept.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before long, I'll have my own channel - I'll be like Barney.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020