Quotes About Independence

If people want to compare us to the Shangri-Las, then that's all well and good. But those groups were put together. They were told what to sing, dressed up, neatly packaged. We're like the '80s version in that we're more outgoing, more involved in it.

I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.

You don't need mainstream media outlets, the big TV looks, or the magazine covers.

Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote the entire novel, and when it was all finished, I would give it to my agent and say, 'Well, here's a novel; sell it if you can.' And they would do that, and it was good because I never had anyone looking over my shoulder.

I don't allow people's outlook on me dictate what I do in my life and how I live my life.

My outlook was, 'You're not my moms; you can't tell me what to do.' I got expelled from about 20 schools.

Only when you are self-employed do you fully realize how much more efficient you become when your output directly correlates with how much money you make.

I'm fascinated with what happens to the creative output when you isolate yourself from the approval and disapproval of the people around you.

Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country.

Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died.

If you're doing something outside of dominant culture, there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.

Our readers get what we do, and I don't think about what it's going to look like to the outside world. I don't really care.

Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about.

In 'Ek Duje'... I play Suman, a girl who runs her own tiffin service in Delhi. She is calm and composed at home but quite bold when it comes to facing the outside world.

Ice and I just live our own lives. I have to answer to him, and he has to answer to me, and that's it. We don't care about the outside world, and even though it can be harsh out there, we just have to deal with it.

All growing up, the outside world wants to tell you what you can and cannot do as a female - what sports are acceptable, what sports are appropriate, what is appropriate to study, what is appropriate to say. But luckily, I have a strong family, and my mom is the most amazing mom in the world. She never let me worry about biases.

I stay in my lane and do what I want to do. I don't worry about the outside world.

My natural state is an outsider, and no matter what group I'm in or where I am, I've always felt like I'm outside the group, and I've always been analyzing the group.

I've always been an outsider to some extent.

I'm in nobody's circle, I've always been an outsider.

I think people realize I'm truly an outsider.

When you're young, you're fearless and more creative, more of an outsider.

If I'm kind of an outsider, it just happened that way, and people responded to it.

I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.