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Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
Jack Prelutsky
'Taxi Driver' wasn't autobiographical in terms of the actual events, but I did draw on my own mental state.
Paul Schrader
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I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious to boot. The day I found out that he didn't know everything, I grew up. It was a shock. I just thought that the man was the end-all of everything, and he knew the answer to everything. Then I found out I'd have to find out my own answers.
Iris Apfel
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When Garcia died, and I decided not to play, I came out here.


Bill Kreutzmann
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For this album I was determined to do it my way. Take my time. I'm gonna win, lose or draw on my own.
Pras Michel
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
Nanci Griffith
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I started writing my own plays, and I would sell out, but after everything was said and done, I'd break even. That's being successful.
Steven Michael Quezada
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You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.


Charles Keating
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
A. E. Housman
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I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.


Chris Cooper
God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.
Bede Griffiths
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I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it.
Satyajit Ray
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I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that.
Eva Longoria
When I make my own videos, I am the writer, the editor, the lighting person, everything - that's why my videos are blurry.
Lilly Singh
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What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself.
Kelly Brook
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I don't even watch my own show: I tape it, I'm out.


Christina Aguilera
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Seven of my novels take place in the Southwest, in the Four Corners area which has been my home since 1973. I know these mountains, rivers, mesas and canyons well, so it's been natural for me to draw on my own personal experiences here.
Will Hobbs
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When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to record everything myself.
Agnes Obel
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I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill.
Ivana Trump
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In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.


Loretta Young
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