#my own

But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997. ↗

— Richard Marx

#dad #died #had #how #i

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs. For my own people, it was important to imagine him as the Great Emancipator, the Moses who led us out of slavery. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#because #claim #closely #everyone #great

When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story. ↗

— Jean Paul Gaultier

#i #i do #my own #own #story

I don't know exactly what is my impact, but I can say I am doing fashion my own way. ↗

— Jean Paul Gaultier

#doing #exactly #fashion #i #i am

I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#am #because #best #entire #entire life

I can tell you that, you know, when I went to my first movie premiere, it was my own movie, and I wore the best jeans I had and my favorite top. You know, I made sure my hair had some wave in it because I braided it the night before myself. ↗

— Diane Lane

#before #best #favorite #first #had

I'm really bad at describing my own life. ↗

— Helmut Lang

#describing #i #life #my own #own

I started singing in church and I was probably around seven and I started singing anywhere that I could. I used to sing at my school. I was in musicals and then it kind of got to a point where I started to - wanted to do my own songs. ↗

— Avril Lavigne

#around #church #could #got #i

Well the way I ended up with my own record is that I did this concert at Wesleyan University. It was just one night and we had no thought of making a record. ↗

— Christine Lavin

#did #ended #had #i #just

I don't think it's blowing my own horn to say the show is not as good. There was chemistry there that took years and years to build and now that's gone. The commentary is lacking. ↗

— Jerry Lawler

#build #chemistry #commentary #gone #good