Gathering your own reference materials, sketches and using your own imagination is going to help you grow as an artist far more than stealing someone else's work.
I don't care if you are religious or not and I think the message is that at the end of the day, everybody has to mature and everybody has to heal and mend their own injuries, emotional injuries, on their own pace.
I left Google after four years of working on Google Maps, search, and Google TV as a product marketing manager. I knew I wanted to do something on my own.
I think it was when I was 12 when I entered a singing competition. I sang my own original song for an audience of 1,000 people.
I like rice, as long as they let me put my own stuff on it. You can bring me white rice or brown rice; just let me doctor it up.
I always keep a firewall between my own travails and my perception of public-policy issues; otherwise I would retain no credibility as a commentator.
I'm my own doctor. I have a group of people who call me up on a weekly basis. I'm a 'doctor' without a license.
I've always made my own clothes since I was a little girl. I was a terrible sewer, but I was always cutting and customising.
I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.
I organize a chess festival in Hungary. I support chess in schools, and I have my own chess foundation. And I started writing books.
I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it.
The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted.
We create our own reality. The blessing (or problem) with this is that when one creates one's own reality, one must live it! Are you living a blessing or is it a curse?
Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off, in my own studio, I made them so you and I could walk in and around, and among these sculptures.
If people read 'Tomorrow' and feel that it is offering them some view of my own household, they would be very, very wrong.
I want to own the New York Jets, that's what I want. And I absolutely believe I am going to own the Jets.
There are things that I do agree with in Christianity and things that I don't agree with. I'm not a regular churchgoer, but I do think that I have my own beliefs that I feel strongly about.
I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the humanity in others.
I never, never lend any of my own clothes for parts any more because you lose your clothes; they become the characters' clothes, and you can never wear them again.
But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.
I was so focused at 21, maybe to my own detriment because I didn't allow myself to have fun. I was constantly looking for the next audition and working to pay the bills.
