quotes about Self Made
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One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself made you quite tough. And then you've got this British mother whose entire being rejects 'coddling' in case it makes you too soft. So there's absolutely nothing standing between you and a fairly rough experience.
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No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it.
-- Alfred AustinSource : Alfred Austin (1906). “The Garden That I Love”
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I'm a Self-made Woman in Every Sense of the Word
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Time itself made all things rare.
-- Lionel ShriverSource : Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.37, Counterpoint Press
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Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend?
-- Michael Moorcock
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Source : "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.
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“If you want to enjoy intimacy, you must learn to enjoy pain.”