#own

My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#boarding school #coach #could #dream #football

My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#ever #first #first time #i #life

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#efforts #enable #express #her #him

I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#else #everyone #i #life #like

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a young girl growing up deaf, life for me was like one long episode of 'The Brady Bunch.' Despite whatever barriers were in my way, I imagined myself as Marcia Brady skating down the street saying 'hi' to everyone, whether they knew me or not. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#brady #bunch #chicago #deaf #despite

Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed. ↗

— Francis Maude

#days #god-given #god-given right #great #known

When it comes down to it, it's about who you know, and who's a fan. It's about whether you're the right age, whether you're hot or not, whether the studio is into you or not. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#age #comes #down #fan #hot

So I had to just kind of go back to the hotel, take a shower, sit quiet, dig down deep, warm up, and allow myself to move into some kind of zone. And then I remembered that a lot of my favorite musical moments are not about perfection. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#allow #back #deep #dig #down

They told me I should be making my own records. So I figured, 'why not? ↗

— Dee Dee Warwick

#i #making #me #my own #own

You have to listen to what resonates within your own gut. You find your direction there. Your voice comes out. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#direction #find #gut #listen #out