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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.
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I was more in opposition within my own party, and for a long while, I was part of the opposition. I had - Scoop Jackson was my candidate in '76. I made no bones about that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was creating commitment devices of my own long before I knew what they were. So when I was a starving post-doc at Columbia University, I was deep in a publish-or-perish phase of my career. I had to write five pages a day towards papers, or I would have to give up five dollars.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did two movies that were arthouse movies; they were critically successful but made no money at all... but after making those movies, I thought, 'I wouldn't watch my own movies when I was 16, and my buddies where I came from wouldn't watch my movies, because they were boring.'
- Nov 07, 2020
After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't even have my own computer.
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One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made that a point when I was creating my sound from the beginning, I didn't want to sound like anybody. Once I kind of found my own sound, I mastered it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
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