Think of the difference between a team sport and one that you do by yourself. Like it or not, if you're by yourself, you're going to be faced with a lot more of your own doubts and your own drawbacks and your own whatever.
I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.
For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.
I have trouble describing my own style, since it's sort of like describing my own eye color or something.
With 'Invincible', I wanted to create my own version of the Marvel or DC universe, with my own heroes and villains.
I've always treated my career like independent. Everything that I got is because of myself, my own endorsements, my own touring myself.
I started to make my own films, however small and however independent they were, from the beginning. And so, even though I was nobody, I was always the master of my own work.
When I'm home, I cook my own dinner, all organic.
I have my own strength.
...at some point you need to stop looking out at others and start looking inward, at yourself, at your own accomplishments, at your own foibles, at your own successes and your own failures. It's only when you begin to look inward that you can begin t...
Luck is loaned, not owned.
I'm good at my own company.
Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and art galleries and in great works of art; it is innate in us and can be galvanized into activity by the power of creative endeavor in ...
Because blood is blood, and every family has its own force. Its own flavor. Its own charm and strange.
Every age sort of has its own history. History is really the stories that we retell to ourselves to make them relevant to every age. So we put our own values and our own spin on it.
Instead of worship or ignorance of the past, we must make our own tools, our own stories, and our own legends.
Who can say they saw a whole play or read a whole book? Each has their own experience, their own play, their own book
Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.
I really, really need some help and advice. I'm scared... I'm scared of my own home, of my own daughter!
I part-own a bookshop for some strange coincidence of reasons, and it is one of the best things I part-own in my life, or own in my life. I do not know, it just feels great.
For me, I prefer to work on my own. I feel like I can tap into a more genuine place, and I feel like my best stuff comes from writing on my own in my own zone.
