Quotes About Independence

I take pride in the fact that a guy and a gal can come to my show, have a couple of beers and still go home with a little money in their pockets.

But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.

Once I stop being a citizen of the U.S.S.R., I will not stop being a Russian poet.

Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you'd knew Michael, you would know he didn't agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn't agree to the point of definition with many things.

The flapper has charm, good looks, good clothes, intellect and a healthy point of view.

I can remember feeling very angry, and saying no! I can do it myself! From that point of view it was very emotional for me to get myself to the point to sit in the chair and be 'up'.

I work for me, 18 hours a day. It's my gig. So I don't have time to get a point of view.

You have to be responsible to yourself... but that doesn't mean you can't have a point of view about something.

I guess I am basically most comfortable when I'm alone. As a kid, I was very much a loner. I love long distance running and long distance biking. A director once pointed out that those are all very isolated exercises you do for hours at a time.

Don't be intimidated by people who seem to be experts. Hear their points of view and get their judgements. But at the end of day, you've got to make a judgement because it's not their life that's going to be affected so much as your future.

Claiming your life for yourself feels like a huge deal until you do it.

The only person to look out for me is me. I've got to make sure Corey Clark is all right.

I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream - to have class.

I skipped class a lot.

I never could make it to morning classes. I never felt like I needed to do it. I remember being in class, and saying, I don't care about this, I don't need to know this.'

I'm in the loners' society. I don't want to classify myself as anything.

In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.

I would rather clean than beg.

I started my own little carpet and upholstery cleaning business. I've done it for 20 years. I live well.

I'd just come out of drama school, didn't get anything, had to move back in with my parents and do a night-time cleaning job.

I don't like people cleaning my room.

I started working for my dad - he had his own company in carpet upholstery cleaning. I was doing whatever he said. It was hard work, it made me grow up and realize that it's not what I wanted to do.

I would still encourage somebody, if they wanted to make a movie, to just go take a movie camera. That's clearly been shown to work.

When everyone thinks alike, no one is thinking clearly.