Quotes About Independence

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I was struggling, I was hungry, I was a freelance copy editor but had very little work.

You can't strut around in my house, because everybody has their own achievements.

I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.

I am stubborn enough to know not to change myself.

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

I have my own stubborn attitude about how I want to play and where I want to go.

Aggressive female icons have been chronically demeaned... It's fine for male artists to be angry - they're encouraged to outwardly express their aggression - but women? I've been painted as an aggressive Feminazi because I'm blunt, stubborn, independent, forthright.

I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.

Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.

Joe Smith and Brigham Young laid out Independence, but very soon thereafter enough citizens of the county collected to drive them off, after several stubborn fights.

We're also fairly stubborn, I think, fairly independent. We have our share of difficulties with our federal government, although I've tried to as I am here encourage a better way of discussing those problems.

I went to my dad when I was 17 and said, 'I want to be a country music star.' Which every dad loves to hear. And he said, 'I want you to go to college.' So we had a discussion. And I'm pretty stubborn. I'm a lot like him. And he said, 'If you go to college and graduate, I'll pay your first six months of rent in Nashville.' So he bribed me.

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.

I do what I want to do instead of what other people think I should do, and I'm kind of stubborn that way.

I've always been a stubborn kid.

I'm quite stubborn, and it's hard for me to let people in - whether that's literally, musically, or with business and work.

My stubbornness helped me for the first half of my career; I had that real determination to do it my way - I know the best way. That helped me from a 14-year-old to 25 in getting me to where I got to.

A lot of my branding has come from stubbornness - I knew what I liked. I knew what I wanted to do.

I do what I do. You like it, great. You don't, go listen to somebody else. I'm stickin' with the people who stuck with me.

I was always Missy, never Melissa. I went to college, and I thought it was so much more interesting to go by a different name, and then it just kind of stuck.

The film I do doesn't have to be a film that only my kids can watch. My kids will watch films, but I will decide what they watch and not. My aim is to play different characters and not be stuck in a mould. Just because you are a mom and a wife doesn't meant you have to play those roles, even in films.

Often, those in later life find themselves stuck in properties that are remote from shops and services, hard to maintain, and away from friends and family.

I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.