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Virginia Woolf: I've been attended by doctors, who inform me OF MY OWN INTERESTS.

The Hours

When I work for someone else, I always make money for them. When I back my own ideas, I am bound to lose.

D. W. Griffith

I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.

Francis Ford Coppola

The first purchase I made with my own money was a single by The Kinks, "All Day and All of the Night" and still one of my all time favorites.

Gary Calamar

Who owns the assets of our Nation? Increasingly, foreign interests own our assets, and we owe them money. No wonder people think our country is headed in the wrong direction. It is.

Marcy Kaptur

My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest the nature of these referential points without dimensions in and through the processes by which the distance between them is maintained.

Brian Ferneyhough

I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.

J. P. Donleavy

It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are plenty of people of our own class, or race, or religion to play, live, and eat with, and to marry.

Gordon W. Allport

My husband. He keeps me grounded. If I were in the world on my own, it would all be much more seductive. But I'm in a relationship that has nothing to do with the film world.

Emily Watson

I studied science and journalism at the University of Colorado and then got interested in experimental film there and started doing my own films.

Eric Darnell

I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it.

Moira Kelly

I feel incredibly fortunate to have had the level of success I've had. I was just writing stories for my own sons.

Rick Riordan

A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, and it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us.

Michael Moore

Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society.

Shirley Manson

My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects.

Missy Elliott

Rihanna takes risks, and I love a woman who takes risks. It just goes to show you have your own mind and your own way of thinking.

Nayvadius Cash

I am a huge fan of world-building. I love doing it in my own books, and I love reading it done well.

Sarah Monette

I'm very lucky that I get to make a living out of acting, which is what I love, and the level of attention I receive has sometimes been my own fault and sometimes not been.

Sienna Miller

I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer.

Alicia Witt

Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a disciplined but intense rhythmic concept, and interesting harmonies.

Chuck Mangione

Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.

Elvis Costello