Personal Territory Quotes

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.

I did have a big following in the upper New York area. I was at the New York State Fair a few times over the years. I have areas that I say are my areas.

Inside the car is truly my own personal space.

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.

When I started my blog, I wanted it to be like my house - my own little place that anyone could come to.

That space between the white lines, that's my office. That's where I conduct my business.

'Wild Things' is saying, 'I don't have to belong anywhere. This is where I belong.' It's a place in the back of my mind that I created, and it's cool, and I love it here.

Writing is not an unknown territory for me.

I think the reason I wrote screenplays for nearly a decade was because it was my territory. I could stake that out.

I write at a desk. I have a room of my own where I can have my computer. I write in there, usually directly onto my computer. It used to be the room where my two sons used to sleep with the dog and the cat, but now it's all mine. It has pictures of art from my books on the walls.

Your dressing area should be your private space.

The world will be saved by people fighting for their homes.

However awful the storm of my disappointment, it's a response that belongs to me. It's my heart, after all. My territory, my kingdom. And since I'm the only one with the authority to surrender it, I can also take it back.

When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.

My goodness, my hair's been talked about by a million people, you know? It sort of goes with the territory.

I've always loved my own little office spaces no matter what they were like. It's the Virginia Woolf, room of one's own concept, it's really important.

In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory.

I'm a little territorial and defensive. I don't like having my space invaded.

No guest rooms.” I shake my head resolutely. “I want to be in a room room. A lived-in room.

My room was a real way of expressing myself. It was like a little nest that I could settle into.

For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan or dolphin, nuclear-head or water-conversationalist, pro-computerologist or Neo-Luddite, simpleton or sage, to interfere with aesthetics. The real world is the playing ground for each and every group, to make or unmake laws. But the tip of the nose of my book or stories or poems is where their rights end and my territorial imperatives begin, run and rule.

I only respond to Telemundo when it's about novellas, in regards to music or movies they have nothing to do with it; that's mine.

Growing up, I always wanted a bedroom of my own.