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I'm trying to get out of my own way. -- Lucinda Williams
From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way. -- Bill Watterson
I've always paid my own way, I've never lived off anyone. -- Kelly Brook
I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. -- Famke Janssen
I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. -- Dinah Shore
Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way. -- John Mayer
I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way. -- Haruki Murakami
I quickly realized I had to have my own style and strategy and find my own way. -- Brad Grey
Naturally, I do things my own way but I'm certainly influenced by my mother's way of doing things. -- Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way. -- John le Carre
What I particularly liked was that, coming from California and not being involved in the New York scene, I developed my personal way, in my own way, at my own pace. -- Herb Ritts
I got my own way of praying. -- Tom Petty
I found my own way of doing things. -- Lee Clow
I'm trying to get out of my own way -- Lucinda Williams
In my own way, I was a rebellious kid. -- Tom Morello
Go ahead without me, I'll find my own way. -- Geoff Tate
To do something very common, in my own way. -- Adrienne Rich
Life is for my own to live my own way. -- James Hetfield
I can't seem to stay out of my own way. -- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
All man-made religions are limited. I go my own way. -- Jill Scott
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. -- Margaret Thatcher
I jump 'em from other writers but I arrange 'em my own way. -- Blind Willie McTell
Just gimme some stage. I'll make my own way once I get there. -- George Clinton
I do things my own way!..so don't give me any lip about it!.. -- Zoro
Coaches are okay, I guess, but I prefer to do things my own way. -- Jack Foster
I get really fantastic results when I just get out of my own way. -- Amanda Palmer
I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's. -- Yevgeny Zamyatin
How can you call it unreasonable when all I want is my own way? -- Ashleigh Brilliant
I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me. -- Lydia M. Child
I do things in my own way, but I've never felt any need to rebel, -- Emma Watson
In marriage it is never having my own way. It is rather discovering our way. -- Gary Chapman
People made suggestions, but, hell, I don't actually listen to anybody, I just go my own way. -- Elia Kazan
I'm truly doing it my own way. I'm not following what the traditional #"? BMX route is. -- Nigel Sylvester
The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods. -- Cheryl Strayed
If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white. -- Edgar Degas
When it came to my art, I went my own way and did not follow the trends. -- Frank Frazetta
I don't aspire to be like other drivers - I aspire to be unique in my own way. -- Lewis Hamilton
I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened. -- David Lynch
Who will see you through the darkness? "Me," I key in the answer. "I'll find my own way. -- Julie Anne Peters
Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist. -- Thomas Carlyle
The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way. -- Hugh Lofting
I don't know exactly what is my impact, but I can say I am doing fashion my own way. -- Jean Paul Gaultier
I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father. -- Tamara Mellon
I want to earn my own way, I like having nice things but I've never accepted anything I haven't earned. -- Jayne Mansfield
In my early days I was a sepia Hedy Lamarr. Now I'm black and a woman, singing my own way. -- Lena Horne
Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way. -- Les Baxter
I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done. -- Famke Janssen
I have my own way to stay focused. I work out every day. I exercise. I swim. I meditate. I breathe. -- Nneka
I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know. -- Billie Holiday
I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it's usually you. -- Taylor Dayne
I want to die in my own way. It's my illness, my death, my choice. This is what saying yes means. -- Jenny Downham
I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it's usually you. -- Taylor Dayne
By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver. -- Art Garfunkel
I love the pioneers like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding, but when I write music, it comes out in my own way. -- Leon Bridges
All the different styles I've played have really helped me as a guitarist and helped me develop my own way of playing. -- Tommy Bolin
I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way. -- Jane Austen
I s'pose, I can't have it all my own way, can I? You can't drown in a person unless they let you. -- Markus Zusak
Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way. -- Guy Lafleur
I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men. -- Anthony Trollope
I have an underdog spirit in me, and now it feels weird to kind of get my own way more often than not. -- Mindy Kaling
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I analyse in my own way, in very simple, no-jargon language. If somebody is talking in very complicated way, I never like that. -- Gautam Adani
I want to make decisions as to where I want to go as an artist, and to get to it in my own way -- David Archuleta
Here I stand and make Both myth and reality in my own way And live the violence of my dream and of my reality. -- Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss. -- Kirk Douglas
I'm pretty solitary when I take pictures. Even when I take pictures of people, I just go about my own way of doing it. -- Ari Marcopoulos
I try to carve my own way so the actors who come after me will say, "I want to do it like Columbus did it." -- Columbus Short
To me, an outlaw is a man that did things his own way, whether you liked him or not. I did things my own way. -- Johnny Paycheck
I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions. -- Zora Neale Hurston
I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not. -- Dinah Shore
Of wanting to pay my own way. I never asked my parents for money. I preferred to steal from my parents than ask them for money. -- Anjelica Huston
I mean to prove I mean to move in my own way/ And say I've been getting along/ For long before you came into the play. -- Fiona Apple
I don't want to copy the people I admire - I'd rather find out what inspired them and try to find my own way through it. -- Justin Adams
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
Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way. -- Debby Ryan
I've always fought for my country, in my own way, showing that Filipinos are a strong people and can do anything that they put their minds to. -- Manny Pacquiao
In the past, it weighed on me because nobody in my family is gay. I had no role models so I had to find my own way. -- Mika
I am who I am, I enjoy life in my own way and that is hell of a lot more than most people can say for themselves -- Pablo Tusset
I have my own way of dividing people, as I suppose most of us have. There are those whom I can talk to, and those whom I can't. -- Margaret Oliphant
I stand in my own way on a daily basis. I don't know if this is something I will ever overcome completely, and I'm oddly okay with that. -- Josh McDermitt
I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way. -- Carly Fiorina
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
Actors are their own worst enemies. They quite often will get in their own way, and I have to be encouraged, endlessly, not to get in my own way. -- James Purefoy
I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master. -- Susanna Moodie
I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it. -- Moira Kelly
I think what Robert Redford established is amazing; thank god for Robert Redford. He's set an amazing example with Sundance and I hope to follow that in my own way. -- John Boyega
I'm a somewhat isolated person in my own way, or I move along a little trail, I go this place, I go that place. It's not like I'm varying my exposure. -- Jonathan Ames
There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal. -- Anne Wilson Schaef
I played team sports, but I never felt like I fitted in that well, so this allowed me to be part of a community but to do it in my own way. -- Tony Hawk
I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all. -- Pamela Stephenson
I hate to try to be that person in my own skin, in my own way, in my own head, not through exercises or anything else, just by, I guess, belief, concentration. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I really like to kid around, and it's my own way of concentrating. In order for me to be able to feel better and concentrate, I need everybody else around me to be relaxed. -- Omar Sy
Obviously, the music and lyrics are in me, but if I let myself get in my own way, I do. I empty out and let it come, and then the music spirits take over. -- Joan Jett
All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself -- Zelda Fitzgerald
Even as a kid, I saw the world in my own way and thought most things that were different were beautiful and magical. Even things that other people thought were horrifying and disgusting and weird. -- Nikki Sixx
I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life. -- Dolly Parton
I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief. -- Richard Cecil
I'm a committed Christian. I worship in my own way. That's my business. That's not the business of the pharisees who are going to preach to me about what I do and then do something else. -- Howard Dean
I choose to politely ask myself to step aside if I am in my own way. If I do not get out of my way, I choose to call a friend who will have me removed. -- Buddy Wakefield
I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen. -- Carl Sandburg
I exercise my right as a free citizen to spend my own money in my own way, so that I can go on the day, the time, to the doctor I choose and get out fast. -- Margaret Thatcher
I respect the Bible and offer namaz regularly. But I am ritualistic only up to a certain extent. I believe only in those rituals that I can understand and connect with, and conduct them my own way. -- Emraan Hashmi
Poetry, I'm returning to it, never leaves me. It's my genre completely. In poetry I contemplate myself exuberantly. It's my unique strength. Force of gravity, electric and magnetic energy; in my own way, to make a synthesis. -- Nicole Brossard
Do you know that I love now to recall and visit at certain dates the places where Iwas once happy in my own way? I love to build up my present in harmony with the irrevocable past... -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I like to take certain aspects of genre fiction and modify them in my own way. 'Your Republic Is Calling You' follows the form of a spy novel, but it leads readers into a world of Kafkaesque irrationality. -- Kim Young-ha
I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled. -- Sigourney Weaver
In television or a movie I bring my own ego and consequently can mess up. In the theatre I learnt very quickly to shut up and listen. Now I am able to get out of my own way. -- Matthew Perry
I love my snaggle fangs. They give me character and character is sexy. People comment, but the only person who ever told me to fix them was my mom ... I just went my own way, like daughters do. -- Kirsten Dunst
I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life. -- Tina Turner
I just need to make sure I don't get in my own way of a truthful and organic moment. Regardless of the research involved, at the end of the day, I have to show up, breathe, and listen. -- Jonathan Keltz
I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world. -- Ben Mendelsohn
My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost. -- Richard Branson
We get these really deep and emotional fan letters sometimes that are so heartbreaking or shocking or haunting sometimes that I can kind of relate to them in my own way and connect with our fans in that way. -- Vic Fuentes
When I get stuck, I take a long walk outside or go to a movie. I get out of my own way so I can hear the quiet voices that hold all of the answers that connect the dots. -- Rolonda Watts
I feel lucky every day. But I can also trace that luck back to decisions I have made. Frequently, those decisions have been to pay my own way to somewhere I want to be and something I want to do. -- Rachel Sklar
I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo. -- Florence Welch
I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way. -- Madeleine Peyroux
Everything comes from a weird place that I don't understand. I make a piece of art just to prove that I exist in my own way. And I can't make something nice. I have to make something that makes me uncomfortable. -- Josh Smith
I think I do have my own technique. I don't like to depend on teachers. So I'm walking on my own way, and I try to be as natural as I can. I think it's the only way to be yourself. -- Klaus Nomi
There are periods of despondency and suffering which take possession of me. But I don't want anything but my own way. That is wanting a good deal, of course, when you have to trample upon the lives, the hearts, the prejudices of others- -- Kate Chopin

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