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Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions. — Alan Bradley

We work very cost effective and I sell my movies in 100 territories on my own. — Uwe Boll

It's a joy to work where I live, and come home and sleep in my own bed. — Len Cariou

Fortunately, I've never had to be too critical of my own work, because the world is critical enough. — Adrian Tomine

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else. — Evelyn Ashford

I never wanted to work for anybody else; I always wanted to be my own boss. — John Barry

I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone who has a lot of money. — Kristy Swanson

Most of my fans are young; they pay for their own tickets and work really hard to be able to come, and so I want to give all of them the best show. — Miley Cyrus

I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard. — Paris Hilton

My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that's a lovely addition. — Bo Burnham

My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests. — Philip Warren Anderson

My own field, the prevention of genetic disorders in babies, has been possible only because of humane work on animals. — Robert Winston

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right. — Martin McDonagh

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art. — Madonna

I hope that when people see my body of work, they will say, 'That brother dropped it for real on us, even at the expense of his own image.' — Haywood Nelson

I work, to this day, from morning to night, seven days a week. I'm always working two, three years ahead of my own timeline; I'm a workaholic. — DJ Ashba

In my own work I am invested in art as a way to break through impasses, whether those impasses are personal, social, or political. — Jill Soloway

Working out is really the top thing in my life that I do for my own self-esteem and self-worth. — Fergie

I tend to watch things that aren't really the genre of my own work. — Jenny Slate

I like my drawings to be direct. I don't generally work on them for too long, but that doesn't mean that they are not works in their own right. — Jeff Koons

I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me. — Lydia M. Child

Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing. — Martin Scorsese

Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books. — Edmund White

I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work. — Cameron Mackintosh

Since then, I've added my own shit to it as well. The worse it smells, the better things are going. That's the bacteria at work! — Andy Weir

In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it. — Mary Oliver

I am very hands on doing my own work, all my own stunt work. — Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

I am interested only in the unknown and I work for my own astonishment. — Roberto Matta

My idea of working for a living is not going to office and earning a salary. It is to build a log house and catch my own fish and till some soil. — Girish Kohli

I work between my heartbeat. I have one-and-a-half seconds to actually move. And at the same time I have to watch I don't inhale my own work. — Willard Wigan

I plan on doing a lot more work on my own, and discovering and doing more. — Billy Sheehan

Suffice it to say that the LOR has usurped the place of my own work, now adorned with cobwebs and dust in a remote corner of my office. — Julie Schumacher

My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean? — Amy Adams

Pop music is so structured, and I'm excited to try and challenge that in my own work. — Sufjan Stevens

In my skimmings over fiction I cannot recall any writer so continuously implicated in his own work as George Moore. — Susan Mitchell

I choose to do my work to the best of my own abilities, and leave others to their own. — Erin Morgenstern

I'm bored to death. Perhaps I should pillage one of my neighbors for my own amusement. It seems to work for Drowden. — Kristin Cashore

I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense of style as well. — Rachel Stevens

Me, I'm my own brand of perfect, I guess. The kind that has to work a little harder than everyone else. — Amy Reed

I definitely intend to create my own work in the future so that we don't have to keep saying, We don't have work for black women.' — Lupita Nyong'o

In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions. — Andres Serrano

One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again. — Jim Carrey

Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear. — William Merritt Chase

Without Ruth's partnership and encouragement over the years, my own work would have been impossible. We were called by God as a team. — Billy Graham

I criticize my own work pretty harshly. — Ritchie Blackmore

I found the best thing
I could do
was just to type away
at my own work
and let the dying
die
as they always have. — Charles Bukowski

My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work. — Michael Caine

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work. — Muriel Spark

I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence. — Salma Hayek

I've always said that I myself am not the best audience for my own work, because I'm just not that receptive to comedy. — Todd Solondz

When I say I don't like my own work, that doesn't mean it isn't better than everyone else's. — John Banville

For my own part I am more interested in my work than its mere money value. — Charles M. Schwab

I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something. — Jacob Lawrence

Yes, I am confusing literature with life. I'm declaring my own ordinary life to be a work of literature. — Tadeusz Konwicki

I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science. — Kathryn Schulz

I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know. — Mel Brooks

Life is too short to attend to other
men's work. It takes all my care and attention to look after mine own. — Amy Steedman

I take my own experience and other assassinations through history and get a lot into the drone program, which doesn't work, as well. — Robert Baer

I'm obviously very involved with my own charity and foundation that I work with. Obviously, I'm very passionate about that. — David Nail

I think of my own work as part of a decades-long conversation about books and reading with people I will mainly never meet. — Michael Dirda

I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they can't feel anymore. — John Bradshaw

I would be far more critical than any reviewer could be of my own work. So I simply don't read them. — John Banville

I have a great work ethic - from watching Lucille Ball, not necessarily my own family. — Jenny Lewis

My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental. — Sufjan Stevens

I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no stranger to the word no. You just have to keep going. — Sara Blakely

In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way. — Paul Allen

I have to disregard everybody else, and then I can do my own work. — Richard P. Feynman

I'm always doing something new. I took a fencing class - that was awesome. And I do a lot of my own athletic work or stunts. — Debby Ryan

The last 16 years of my daddy's life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that. — Buck Owens

I do less waiting by the phone than anyone I know in the business. I don't wait for a job. I just go on to my own work. — Grace Zabriskie

And if any work that I have done should have value beyond my own lifetime, I believe it will be the happy labors of the decade 1869-1878. — William Henry Jackson

I consider myself a significant supporter of any candidate I work for, and I am certainly generous, I think, with my own funds. — Kenneth Langone

I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day. — Victoria Chang

A great percentage of the mistakes I discovered in
my own work, could be attributed to testimonies. — Raul Hilberg

I think just vocally I have a little timber in my voice that God gave me that does work - it puts my own DNA onto it. — Danny Gokey

I need to work outside government, on my own. — Marian Wright Edelman

The truth is that I don't like rehearsals. I get embarrassed hearing my own work. I assume that the cast is embarrassed to sing the stuff. — Stephen Sondheim

The work must be its own reward. I got that early on. And I'm blessed by meeting my own standards of excellence. — Al Jarreau

I'm working on my own work, my own publishing company. — John Van Hamersveld

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

I thought I would write non-fiction. I thought I would enter the New York literary scene as copy editor, work my way up, and then write my own books. — Michael Gruber

I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work. — Charles Babbage

One good thing the teaching has given me is the ability to read and revise my own work. — Tom Barbash

I'm a good judge of my own work. — S.E. Hinton

I'm just so tired of life being something that happens to me. That's not how it's supposed to work. I'm supposed to make my own life. — Joshua Edward Smith

I've always really enjoyed sharing my work with others. I find it really hard if I don't think the work will exist outside of my own apartment. — Ottessa Moshfegh

As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work. — Francis Ford Coppola

When I play my own music, or when I play new music, there's much more stress and intensity of thinking about how I'm going to make it work! — Bela Fleck

I was freakishly ambitious. I didn't want to be a child. I wanted my own flat, to work and be a grown up. — Billie Piper

I've always known who I am. I might not work perfectly, or be like them, but that's okay. I know I work in my own way. — Sarah Dessen

I liked being able to work with all the different producers and take what they brought to the table and bring my own style to it. — Clay Aiken

I'm the biggest critic of my own work, but sometimes you nail a chapter so good that you have to take a step back and admire that bitch. — R.D. Ronald

My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly. — Anita Desai

A good idea is a good idea and my work should compete on its own merits, not based on the size of my fan base. — Christopher Priest

I'm never gonna go into a studio and work for a whole year non-stop. Just every day on my own in the studio working, it's just too damn hard. — Imogen Heap

The main reason I did 'Captain America' was because I wanted to get out of my own head and stop taking my work so seriously. — Hayley Atwell

My husband and I own half a dozen iPods, a Mac desktop, and four Mac laptops. We're clearly fans of Mr. Jobs' work. — Sarah Lacy

I think, for me, when I direct my own work it's just an extension of the authorship. — Adam Rapp