#myself

When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it! ↗

— Johnny Cash

#feel #i #know #make #my own

When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself. ↗

— Johnny Cash

#died #i #into #just #myself

And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it. ↗

— Rosanne Cash

#anxiety #back #enjoy #focus #get

After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#came #crowd #effects #few #first

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#able #buying #cars #drafts #finding

When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?' ↗

— Jackie Chan

#filming #get #hours #i #later

I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow. ↗

— Cher

#encourage #examine #force #friends #grow

I basically put myself into directors' hands and let them tell me what to do, and the more they told me what to do, the more I liked it. ↗

— Julie Christie

#directors #hands #i #into #liked

With 'Bright Star' and with 'The Piano,' too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era, because of my lack of experience with the era. And one of the ways I'd get over it is to remind myself that every film, even if it's contemporary, creates its own world. ↗

— Jane Campion

#because #being #bright #contemporary #creates

I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#bad #been #deep #deep down #down