Quotes About Independence

Girls around the age of 14 to 18 are deciding who they are and exploring relationships, they're ready to take charge of their life. Boys aren't as confident at that age. They want music that deals with their emotions for them.

My earliest memory of freedom was when I was about 14 and I stopped caring what people thought about me! I was so free and in charge! That whole year I was exploring myself, and I was so 'free' that I got sent away to boarding school.

I am an independent person expressing myself.

To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I'm independent until the day I die.

I found the world extraordinarily strange, having first left home at 15.

You're the only one who's closing your eyes at night. There's no one else who can do it for you.

I think a lot of people, especially women, feel like to be whole, you need to find part of yourself in another person - probably because of the fables we're told as kids.

We all want what every girl wants: to look fabulous while we're out there ruling the world.

I've got fabulous women friends that I kind of didn't have while I was married. I realized the great need for that when the marriage started to disintegrate.

I have faced a lot of people who said that I would always be in my father's shadow. I just take that, and I use that as a boost because, as much as I love my father, I am trying to make a name for myself.

Me being so comfortable being abroad is due to the fact I've always been away from home.

If you want to make your own decisions about where you work, what you do, what you earn and what you buy, then being able to make money is an important factor.

So I think the biggest thing that I've learnt in my career is not allowing external factors to determine my self-worth - external factors being what coaches think of me, the amount of playing time I get - not allowing those things that actually are out of my control affect how I feel about myself.

I'm a Bronx girl so I definitely have my little wild factors.

I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.

I was able to retire from the sport with all my faculties and not let the sport retire me.

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.

When you live away from your family, your friends and faculty become your family.

It was a big decision to leave the system because many people said I would fail.

I've always wanted to call the shots because I would rather fail than not have a chance to figure it out on my own.

I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.

I lost my parents when I was fairly young.

I hate the idea of growing accustomed to someone and being faithful.

Becoming a writer, and then a director, was taking my creative life in my own hands, and wanting to have stories that I wanted to put out into the world - and I have fallen in love with directing.