CARLOS AMAYA: "By then, I had already developed my own idea of what sustainable was, and where it needed to go."

VOA: special.2009.04.10

"No you can't. The gas company turned it off." "Now,what I'm telling you is for your own good.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

But O I love you it sings, my little my country My food my parent my child I want you my own My flower my fin my life my lightness my O...

VOA: special.2011.01.31

Still,she says her books reflect the Nancy Drew stories that she read as a child: "Things that I read as a kid keep cropping up in my own work whether I realize it or not.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

When Billy Clanton and Frank McLaury drew their pistols I knew it was a fight for life, and I drew and fired in defense of my own life and the lives of my brothers and Doc Holliday."

VOA: special.2010.02.15

"I wasn't gone.I was alive in my own perfect world, but in my heart I knew it wasn't perfect.

VOA: standard.2010.01.08

"Actually,I was very self-conscious about playing my own music in those concerts and rarely did it, in the '80s."

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

But I think that we have put our own stamp on something very traditional and we can add our own personalities to it.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

And it takes you back to that time." "I was astonished at my own reaction.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

Yeah,I mean it's a completely different way of life when you have your own place."

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

It was the largest oven I'd ever seen. They all brought their own bread there.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

"I've called it an epidemic in America because just about every American, including many teens, own cell phones and they think they can talk and drive and do it safely,and they can't."

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

"Because it's easy and cheap and every farmer can basically get their own phone or borrow someone's down the road, I think it's increasingly a way for them to gain access to things they didn't have before."

VOA: standard.2010.07.28