Quotes About Independence

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone.

For the pride of trace and trail was his, and sick unto death, he could not bear that another dog should do his work.

I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.

Actors want to work with you but they want you to do their thing. Actors, whom I love with a blind partiality, sometimes they want to be soloists in the symphony, not a part of the orchestra.

In the original novel [ Anthem], the story unfolds in the mind of a single character. Maybe that's why Ayn Rand called the work a poem.

It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.

It's important to stand up for your work - otherwise somebody else will step in and say they did it.

It's cool that people like what I do, but I don't work for the audience.

I am very hands on doing my own work, all my own stunt work.

Don't wait on approval, validation and likes from others - always give yourself the highest of approval ratings and work from there. Hold your head up and be fabulous no matter what!

It's important to have the right agent - people that are working hard for you. But an actor needs to be in control of their career no matter how good the representation is.

Do thine own task, and be therewith content.

The strength of self-reliance and self-development is that of science and technology, and the shortcut to implementing the five-year strategy is to give importance and precedence to science and technology.

I quickly realized I had to have my own style and strategy and find my own way.

You build your own strategy. You don't define it by what another competitor is doing.

A lot of labels always feel the need to tell you how they think the music should be marketed and what songs work best where. I say make music you love doing, come up with a strategy, and put it out there.

I don't want everyone toeing the same line. You have got to have discussions and someone might then think of a fresh strategy, which has to be encouraged.

How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.

If you're from Dublin, for example, chances are you live with your family, if you're lucky enough to, right up to the mid-20s. And most of the people I know, when they finally sort of set off on their own, they don't stray all that far.

I was born a limited-government person. I've always had this streak going through me.

My parents were the only people to go to South Africa from Australia in a single engine plane... the two of them, no radio... you had to fly down low to see the street signs to know which city you were in... most people couldn't speak English.

My mum pushed me to get a normal job when I finished school, and I just wasn't into that at all. So I hit the street and started busking and making my own way.

I was such a Jewish princess. My whole life was leading up to marrying a rich man and living on 48th Street.

I've sold my records outta shopping carts on the street.