Quotes About Independence

The sense of not knowing where I came from let me be as smart as I wanted to be.

My message is a simple one - the E.U. is not perfect, but Scotland's interests are best served by being a member.

It's a real bloke thing, not talking to people because it's not manly to get help.

Tennis parents and stage mothers should take note. The kid has got to want to do it, not just to please the parent, but for himself.

Being in a class with kids, meeting new people, and borrowing notes from other students - I've never done that before. I've always had to fend for myself.

I knew I really made it when my dad saw me in London and after the performance he had no notes to me and just said 'You are doing your own thing and I am proud of you.'

I don't see anyone for the first hour and a half that I'm awake. I don't like to talk, and I don't like to hear any sounds. People know not to bother me! I use that time to read, and make lists and notes of things I have to do later in the day.

There is nothin' like a dame.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed.

In America, where no one judged or supervised her, where my father was too busy eating her cooking to notice whether she was eating it, too, my mother found herself newly enchanted by the taste of food.

I like driving. A lot. I think that's something I just enjoy the most. I can, at a moment's notice, drive across the country if, you know, I had to.

People give me advice all the time, and I don't take a blind bit of notice.

I can be normal by myself; no one notices me.

The notion that Cuba is the only country in the world where you can live without working must be erased forever.

I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.

Every other 16-year-old girl wanted to look at bridal magazines; I could not have been more bored with the notion.

Essentially, we wanted to be in one of Azazel's films, so the notion was we'd simply write an Azazel Jacobs movie ourselves, and then give it to him and be like, 'Right, here's you next film, now direct us. Go.'

There is so much focus on being self-sufficient, and it makes it very difficult to ask for things. I've been crippled by this notion of high-functioning self-sufficiency. And I see it a lot in younger girls. Asking for help brings people closer in a way that I suspected but didn't actually put into practice.

The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.

I hope that 'House of Suns' functions as an independent novel.

I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.

As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty.

I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.

From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.