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My Own Quotes - Page 13

It is mine, I tell you. My own. My precious. Yes, my precious.

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition”, p.334, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. "I don't adopt any one's ideas; I have my own.

Fathers and Sons ch. 13 (1862) (translation by Constance Garnett)

Sometimes when I'm told to use my own discretion, if no one is looking I'll use someone else's. But I always put it back.

George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.187, Hachette UK

I was always my own teacher.

Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.85, Harvard University Press

For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.

Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)”, p.1211, Ageless Reads

My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others.

C. S. Lewis (2012). “An Experiment in Criticism”, p.140, Cambridge University Press

I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.

"Letters of C. S. Lewis". Book by C. S. Lewis, p. 251, 1953.

I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.

"Expressing 'the Misery and Confusion Truthfully'". Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, American Drama, Volume 14, No. 1 (p. 87), Winter 2005.

I just needed to get out on my own, live my own life. And I did, and it's great.

"Fictional character: Adult Simba". "The Lion King", www.imdb.com. 1994.

I didn't like to be restricted, because when you're in a choir, you have a part to sing and you sing it. I always liked singing on my own.

"Tom Jones: 'Spiritual songs are natural to me'". Interview With Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2010.