Quotes About Independence

Usually I'm the one asking somebody to do something because I don't know how to finish it. I'm like, 'Do this for me' because I'm just resistant to learning.

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.

It was strange to go off the path that everyone takes and not finish college, but it's been a great adventure.

Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others.

I moved to L.A. right after I finished high school, for three years, because everybody was telling me it was important to get down there, and then I kind of just decided for myself that I didn't need to be there to be doing this. I wanted out of some of the chaos that comes with living here and being an actor.

For me, once I've worked on something and it's finished, it's like an ex-boyfriend: you don't go back to them.

I left home when I was just 17, finished up high school, and went to work.

There are those people who try to change what you're doing. We don't like that. When we went into the studio for 'City of Evil,' we had 99 percent of the songs finished and ready to record.

What are people going to do? Fire me? I've been fired before. Not book me? I've been out of work before. I don't care.

The biggest mistake I've seen people make with their careers is, when they're good, after two or three years - and they happen to be smart - they announce that they're going out to start their own firm.

I always, as a firm rule, make my movies based on how inexpensively I can make them because that means the more freedom I'm going to have.

I'm a firm believer when I'm doing my job to not want anybody around.

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

As both a First Amendment absolutist and as an American, I want to keep our government as far away from our press as possible.

I think a lot of your 20s is trying to figure out who you are - you're on your own; you've got you first job. You've got your first apartment. You're living away from your parents. You're just discovering who you are.

I left school at the age of 16 with no education or income; taking the first job I could get working in a hair salon.

You can't let someone else lower your self-esteem, because that's what it is - self-esteem. You need to first love yourself before you have anybody else love you.

I'll be the first one to tell you if some girl turned me down.

Jurgen loved London because he could get lost here. He said that it was the first time he could do that in eight years. No one knew him or bothered him. It is great for a person to be able to get lost.

The E.U. without Britain is like fish without chips.

I went to England for five months when I was in high school, by myself, so I did experience a bit of being the fish out of water.

I'm a Republican. I'm probably not the cookie-cutter Republican that fits the litmus test of Republican Party politics. But I don't want to be that.

My father left school at 14 and became a fitter. He didn't want to be at school.