Quotes About Independence

I've never been much for becoming a member of a group.

The U.K. matters with or without being a member of the E.U.

After my marriage ended - a hundred years ago - I had a few memorable Christmases on my own: what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

I don't like hawking 'round other people's memories. That wasn't part of the deal when I was born.

I got a boss mentality.

I'm someone who does not like a bunker mentality and does not like groupthink.

In the U.S. we have the mentality that you can make it on your own.

I think a lot of the best ideas come from the grassroots; I'm someone who does not like a bunker mentality and does not like groupthink.

I'd only do a deal with a label if it allowed me to still be indie and have that indie mentality. I have to have creative control.

My mam worked for 41 years. She was a single working mother. I think I always had that mentality of you can do everything. You can have your kid. You can be a good mother. You can work. She was very independent.

I learned so much and my mentality got so much stronger living away from my family.

I'm real mentally strong, so there's just not a lot that people can say to get me off of my own self and lane, and my confidence.

The idea of women having a complete hold on their lives is still alien in a lot of places. So, it is important that we keep telling such stories where women are shown both physically and mentally powerful.

I don't think my father was my mentor.

I started freelancing for the Associated Press. I had a great mentor there who sort of taught me everything.

I don't really have a mentor.

My biggest mentor is myself, I've always felt.

Are any of us self-taught? It just means I didn't go to school for it. But you do have teachers. You have mentors.

I was raised by the state of California, and then various families and mentors.

You are at the mercies of the dailies. With an indie you don't have that.

The UFC and WEC didn't give me anything. Everything I conquered was my merit and from my team.

I want to be judged on my own merits.

At some point, an industry has to either succeed or fail on its own merits.

At the end of the day all I've ever asked for is to be allowed to succeed and fail on my own merits. Not based on what somebody else wants me to do or thinks I should do. Or, what they want me to say or what they think I should say.