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.
I think that's most unfortunate about our Democratic system, that you're confining it to people who are either very wealthy in their own right or have capacity to gain access to large amounts of money.
I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.
We have a whole industry which is gigantic: games. Games is very successful. It's its own art form, though, and it's not the same as a linear narrative.
The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.
I used to think there was something cheap in trying to make beautiful sentences. Now I think language has its own ways and ends, and it does one's thinking good to try to serve them. Beauty isn't truth. But a certain kind of clear beauty will help in the pursuit of truth.
I would have written 'Brown Girl Dreaming' if no one had ever wanted to buy it, if it went nowhere but inside a desk drawer that my own children pulled out one day to find a tool for survival, a symbol of how strong we are and how much we've come through.
Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.
When I go out with Journey, it is a complete cakewalk. I can afford my own bus.
The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.
The Royal Family doesn't go out shopping for their uniforms: they've got some guy sewing on all the ornaments in-house. You could say I've got my own in-house team as well.
Why shouldn't future generations and young Americans have the choice to earn a higher rate of return? Why shouldn't they be able to own their own Social Security so that Congress can't spend it on other things?
An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
I really believe I've been a good person. Not perfect - forget about perfect - but just learning by what I was taught and living by my own values. I might have stepped on a few ants - and a few other things as well - but I've never hurt anybody.
I didn't think I'd be getting my own stand-alone film.
I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.
They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women.
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them.
The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.
Everyone has their own approach to how they work.
You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy when you start talking about it.
Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.
Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
Maybe It's not the biggest blockbuster film, but there will be some people that will see it, that will be debating it, that will be questioning their own sense of spirituality. If the film resonates, then I have succeeded in what I set out to do.
I think everything has its own pros and cons.
I like the idea that people have formed their own opinions. And of course once people meet me or talk to me their opinion totally changes because I'm much more that girl that you hang out with than you think.
Me being a black girl in London, whose mom is first-generation African and whose dad is West Indian, gives me a different view. I'm coming at soul from my own place.
It's true in most movies I don't use my own voice.
I always promised myself if I ever got the chance to do a 'Flashdance'-type of movie, I would do my own dancing. I can say with pride that every single dance move in 'Go For It!' is my own dance move.
An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.
Certainly it's very difficult to keep momentum going through a film which has as many characters as this does, and the piece took on a life of its own to try and shape it. That took all the time we had in editing.
I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.
