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I've always had a love for making things my own.

I've always had a love for making things my own.

Jennifer Hudson
My Own
"Fashion Talks: Jennifer Hudson. The one-time “Dreamgirl” celebrated the realization of another dream, her new collection for QVC, on Tuesday evening". interview with Emma Ward, wwd.com. June 27, 2012.

History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.

Jennifer Gilmore
Imagination, Release, My Own

As much as theyll let me I do my own stunts and I do all my own fighting.

Jeffrey Donovan
Fighting, Let Me, My Own
"'Burn Notice's' spy guy: A talk with Jeffrey Donovan". Chicago Tribune interview, featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com. July 1, 2008.

I can't defend someone else's jokes. I can only defend my jokes, and I have to live with my own jokes.

Jeff Ross
I Can, My Own, Jokes
Source: www.npr.org

I am my own man. I governed as a conservative, and I govern effectively.

Jeb Bush
Men, Conservative, My Own
"Transcript of the 2015 GOP debate (9 pm)". www.cbsnews.com. August 6, 2015.

In Guinea I could read [Franz] Kafka. I re-discover in him my own discomfort.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Guinea, Discomfort, My Own

The sea and wind can at the same time convey my neighbour's vessel and my own.

Jean-Baptiste Say
Wind, Sea, My Own
Jean Baptiste Say, Clement Cornell Biddle (1851). “A treatise on political economy”, p.360

I would rather kill myself than play my own music... I can't stand it when people do that.

Jarvis Cocker
Play, People, My Own

I despise in others my own characteristics.

Janeane Garofalo
Characteristics, Despise, My Own

When I was in my 40s was I simply produced my own movies because no one offered me anything. But certainly after 50 it's hard for a woman, which is why television is such a welcoming thing.

Jane Fonda
Television, Welcome, My Own
"Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett and Six More Top Actresses on Pay Gap, Sex Scenes and the Price of Speaking Frankly: "There Is Always a Backlash"". Interview by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 18, 2015.

As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.

Jane Campion
Criticism, Relate, My Own
Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. September 22, 2009.

I do not cough for my own amusement.

Jane Austen
Amusement, My Own
Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.4

Let me just unsubscribe to my own mind already, because I don't get any of it.

Jandy Nelson
Mind, Let Me, My Own
Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.48, Penguin

I don't take any photographs. I travel a lot by myself, and I feel weird taking photos on my own.

Jamie Bell
Photograph, Feels, My Own
"This time it's serious" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2007.

In 1998, I started a blog, something I could control very easily and update at my own whim.

Jami Attenberg
Updates, Whim, My Own

I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.

James Branch Cabell
Literature, Feels, My Own
James Branch Cabell (2005). “Beyond Life”, p.345, Cosimo, Inc.

I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how.

Isabel Allende
Want, Freak, My Own

He bared his teeth in a happy feral grin. My own personal psycho.

Ilona Andrews
Teeth, Psycho, My Own
Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds: A Kate Daniels Novel: 4”, p.165, NYLA

I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure.

Herb Alpert
Pleasure, My Own

My own thoughts Are my companions.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Companion, My Own
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.800, Jazzybee Verlag

I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.

Henry Rollins
Needs, Left Alone, My Own

I like playing with a popular cliché and making it my own by half-embracing it, half-disemboweling it.

Heidi Julavits
Half, My Own
"The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Heidi Julavits". Interview with Angela Stubbs, therumpus.net. October 14, 2012.

There's nothing you can do, Sirus. No one can do this for me, and no one can swoop in and rescue me every time I'm challenged. I have to do this on my own.

Heather Brewer
Rescue, Rescue Me, My Own
Heather Brewer (2011). “First Kill”, p.105, Penguin

They think that I am a lot younger than I am. Everyone who meets me is always like, “Oh, are you the youngest sister?” “No, I'm older than Hilary.” I think it's just because I have never really played older than myself or even my own age yet.

Haylie Duff
Thinking, Age, My Own
Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

I can build a happy life only on the foundation of my own nature.

Gretchen Rubin
Happy Life, Foundation, My Own
Gretchen Rubin (2015). “Better Than Before: What I Learned About Making and Breaking Habits--to Sleep More, Quit Sugar, Procrastinate Less, and Generally Build a Happier Life”, p.25, Broadway Books

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