"I've enjoyed the pleasures of working since I was 12 and earned all my own spending money since I was 14."
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"I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better."
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"Maybe I think too much for my own good."
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"I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me."
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"Do I have to use my own money?"
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"I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself."
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"My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet."
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"To make what fate intends for me my own intention"
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"It's very difficult for me to evaluate my own stuff."
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"To do something very common, in my own way."
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"I was created to fulfill a function and I failed in it. I negated my own existence."
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"If the opportunity comes about that's right and it can be a smooth thing, yeah sure. But for the moment, I'm concentrating on my own stuff."
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"You, Jane, I must have you for my own--entirely my own."
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"I don't ever want to believe my own press clippings, good or bad."
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"Until I created my own shows, I had nothing but bad experiences on staffs."
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"I'm not much interested in my own self when I write. I'm interested in what I observe out there, what's going on around me."
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"I've accomplished more working on my own than I ever did as part of a team."
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"Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity."
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"I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life."
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"When I was doing a movie called 'The Seeker,' I was fortunate enough to be able to do a lot of my own stunts."
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