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Quotes About Independent

There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.
~ Dick Wolf
In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story.
~ David Morse
I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me.
~ Shirley Manson
The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.
~ Sigmund Freud
I have contrarian tendencies.
~ George T. Conway III
I'd be the first to say that I'm a distant individual. I have a tendency to come across as being aloof and dismissive.
~ Robert Parish
I really do like the independent way of working. You don't get much studio intrusion compared to when you're working on a big Hollywood film where there tends to always be loads of people interfering. The only problem, though, with independent features is that they are hard to sell.
~ Steven Bauer
My tenure in the Senate was really as an independent and whichever, regardless of party label.
~ Arlen Specter
The term 'web-series' has a stigma attached to it because it was created at a time when the only web-series that were being created were being created by people who would have loved to have a television show, but they couldn't. So they created a web-series instead, on their own dime. And those series look cheap because of it.
~ John Cabrera
A few nights ago I went to a Hollywood screening of a small independent film made by Sally Kirkland, an old friend of mine who also did terrific job acting in it. There were other actors in it and they were all terrific.
~ Nick Mancuso
The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.
~ Robert Toombs
On the front flap, the reader was informed that the Testamento geometrico was really three books, 'each independent, but functionally correlated by the sweep of the whole,' and then it said 'this work representing the final distillation of Dieste's reflections and research on Space, the notion of which is involved in any methodical discussion of the fundamentals of Geometry.
~ Roberto Bolano
I don't put up with being messed around, and I don't suffer fools gladly. The short version of that is that I'm a bitch. Trust me, I can provide character references.
~ Robin McKinley
Is he a renegade, works best by himself, alienates those in authority? Actually, that would be you, dear. True
~ Lisa Gardner
The Teflon woman. No one sticks to her.
~ Lisa Jackson
I'm a badass court reporter.
~ Lisa Scottoline
I was a haenyeo—independent and resilient—but I'd missed my husband.
~ Lisa See
Miss Vesper Holly has the digestive talents of a goat and the mind of a chess master. She is familiar with half a dozen languages and can swear fluently in all of them.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Shall I ask Captain Ungari if he wants to volunteer?" inquired Illyan with a suppressed ripple of his lips. "No. You will operate independently. God help us. After all, if I don't send you someplace else, you'll be right here. So the scheme has that much merit even if the Dendarii never do anything.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Quoting from Theodore Kaczynski's letter to the author: My speculative interpretation is that McVeigh resembles many people on the right who are attracted to powerful weapons for their own sake and independently of an likelihood that they will ever have a practical use for them. Such people tend to invent excuses, often far-fetched ones, for acquiring weapons for which they have no real need.
~ Lou Michel
And as for the city itself - it was to be the capital of Maharashtra; or of both Maharashtra and Gujarat; or an independent state of its own...while the government tried to work out what on earth to do, the city's inhabitants decided to encourage it to be quick. Riots proliferated..
~ Salman Rushdie
It seems to me that few concepts have offered greater scope for human cruelty than the idea of an immortal soul that stands independent of all material influences, ranging from genes to economic systems. And
~ Sam Harris
I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the games of the great players and your own.
~ Mikhail Botvinnik
Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.
~ Walter Isaacson