I guess if you are making more money than your mom and dad, you can set your own boundaries.
I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
I once wrote a short story called 'The Best Blues Singer in the World,' and it went like this: 'The streets that Balboa walked were his own private ocean, and Balboa was drowning.' End of story. That says it all. Nothing else to say. I've been rewriting that same story over and over again. All my plays are rewriting that same story.
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.'
Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.
I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.
Even in technology, you have the freedom to solve a problem your way, you see. But it naturally sits in a certain framework whereas, in the physics, everybody had to come up with his own idea what he was going to do.
I like to play by my own rules.
What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.
In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.
I hate this idea that there are some people who have a right to express their suffering and others who don't, that there are those in this hierarchy of pain who own it more than you do.
Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against his own landscape.
This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.
Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.
Although my early equipment was very modest, later I made my own and they were more powerful.
You want to come up with your own points of view first and then test them against what you see.
The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.
I'm never going to be one of those people who is good at organization. But I'm very visual. I have a catalog in my head of things I already own, so it's easy to shop and I always know exactly what I'm looking for.
Am I the only person who wishes he could escape his own life for a few hours?
I was an only child until I was 14, and there were no other kids around the area really. So I spent a lot of time on my own in the fields or by the lake, with just my imagination for company. I suppose I never wanted to let that part of me go.
I find it weird to use my own voice on TV.
Obviously I was disappointed when it fell into disuse, because it was my own track named after me, but I am sure all those youngsters we lost will be coming back, and I certainly intend to be down here as much as I can, coaching and advising.
Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature.
If you have a lot of nature in your city, it becomes a more enjoyable place. That's my own feeling about it.
I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.
I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there.
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
So, without being cold, you really have to try to retain the capacity to help people without becoming too emotional or allowing your own emotions to have full rein.
You can't do things unexpected in life if you're not willing to take a risk, and it's easier to risk your own life than it is for your parent to watch you take risks. It's very, very hard for parents to see children doing things that aren't a solid path. I've been through that.
I talk all the time about how much I read growing up and how much I love Stephen King and how he impacted my work from a genre perspective, but Pat Conroy wrote some of the most magnificent stories about characters who had to deal with dysfunctional families and try to find a place of honor in their own world and the pain of loss.
Philosophically, what I have learned is to thy own self be true. That is the biggest lesson of all. Relax; music is fun. To many people take it to seriously because of the money involved.
The writer creates the role on the page and then the actor takes it and makes it their own.
In my own country, I play light comedies and funny parts.
When I did the film 'Hear My Voice' a few years ago, I disappeared fully up my own backside for a while. Because I thought my career was taking off, I became a bit of an egomaniac and a pain in the neck. I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.
