Quotes About Independence

By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors.

I don't want to be the one dancing behind the trees and getting my stomach pinched.

I don't want to sing songs around trees anymore.

I was raised in a house where my mom was the primary breadwinner. It was a dysfunctional house, but she showed tremendous resilience.

I simply loved all my life; loved is too strong a word, but I had a tremendous sentiment, partly conditioned, of course, by the reality of where I grew up, for the spirit of individualism, for the idea of your being on your own in a big way.

I like festivals of all kinds: in 1969, I made a film about the first Pan-African festival in Algiers, which celebrated the countries that had been liberated 10 years earlier. There was a tremendous feeling of kinship.

My mother has a tremendous amount of pride and self-respect. She won't take assistance from anybody.

There's something to be said for being given a tremendous amount of freedom as an actor.

I felt like I've needed to ask my parents up until about four years ago about everything. They have helped me tremendously, I came out of college with no debt. Everything they made, they just poured into my education.

There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.

You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.

My advice to new artists is to not follow a trend, but to start one. By that, I mean to not be tempted to do what business people might suggest to you, to jump on the bandwagon, but to be strong.

I think every girl has a little bit of rebellion inside. It's always fun to not follow every trend and not be the perfect good girl. It's edgy to be a little rebellious.

I never try to follow a trend or fashion.

Influential people aren't buffeted by the latest trend or by public opinion. They form their opinions carefully, based on the facts. They're more than willing to change their mind when the facts support it, but they aren't influenced by what other people think - only by what they know.

I'm not really a trend person.

I don't follow any particular musical trend.

Back in the Seventies, we bucked the trend. Instead of going to London and handing in a demo tape, we insisted the record labels came to Glasgow to hear us.

I don't follow trends. I set my own and I go for the extreme.

You don't need to follow trends to be stylish.

When it came to my art, I went my own way and did not follow the trends.

My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!

I don't chase beauty trends.

I don't blindly follow fashion trends.