Quotes About Independence

My whole life, they said, 'Do not act. You need to get a college degree'.

My favorite college experience was probably leaving college.

I love college life.

I was a maverick. I went to five different colleges looking for I don't know quite what.

I am Gemma Collins. I don't have to answer to anyone about my fashion choices.

Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating.

The United States does not carry baggage from a colonial past as do European countries.

I think the Cold War was worse for Africa than colonialism.

Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.

My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.

I cut my hair myself and colour it. I know everybody in the hairdressing business despairs of me, but it's so much easier to do it yourself.

I think we were trying to get off Combat from the moment we were on Combat.

Americans want a nation-state: our own country with a history of freedom combined with responsibility.

Men will come and go from your life.

A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.

I'm probably one of the few authors in this country who could very comfortably live off my writing.

It's quite comforting to me as an individualist that we're not very close to being clones of one other.

It was like 'Risky Business' for 10 years. My parents were out of town, they left me a bunch of money, the car, and the house, and I didn't know when they were coming home.

My mother liked to command me to do things I found scary. I always wanted to stay home and read. My mother only ever wanted me to get away.

I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.

I'll say I'm happy doing my thing. No one says 'no comment' anymore.

Commerce is in no one's hand and that should not be the only reason to make a film ever.

You know what I would love? I would love to be one of those actresses who can come out with a film or come out with a new commercial without the world knowing about it.

I'm no longer interested in being in big commercial films.