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Owning It Quotes (page 18)

It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility. David Gower
Andre Gide quote: "It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward."
It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward. Andre Gide
It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth. Helen Garner
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. Mahatma Gandhi
It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story. Carlisle Floyd
It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it. Max von Sydow
It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting. Matthew Sweet
It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own. Matthew Sweet
It accumulates over the years and I've led so many bands of my own now and forced myself into new situations... You would hope that you play better and better - until you just get too feeble to do it anymore. Andy Summers
Charles Dickens quote: "It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never..."
It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained. Charles Dickens
It's hard to actually take details from your personal life and apply them a scene because, as much as you can identify with a feeling, you just get muddled. As soon as you start bringing your own stuff in, it's like, 'No, that's not right.' You're playing a different person. You can relate, but you have to leave that stuff at the door. Kristen Stewart
Nicole Polizzi quote: "It's always been a dream to have my own sunglass line and I'm..."
It's always been a dream to have my own sunglass line and I'm so excited to be able to finally offer it to my fans! Nicole Polizzi
It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood. Vanessa Hudgens
It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world. Alice Hoffman
It may be, however, that I am too much wedded to my own views in the matter, and as I have spent nearly eight years of the hardest work of my life in this department, I respectfully request that I may now be relieved from its command. George Crook

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