Quotes About Independence

I didn't go to America to be a star, but to try to reclaim my life.

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.

When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.

Ten guards and the warden couldn't have torn me out of those books. Months passed without even thinking about being imprisoned....I had never been so truly free in my life.

It's a little bit annoying, because it feels like everybody's taking the power away from you. Everybody's taking your adult life away from you. On one level, I used to resent it.

'I think as a guy you need a little bit to be on your own from early on, to start to live your own life, and try to understand what is going on around you, you have to be able to survive...

As to marriage, I think the intercourse of heart and mind may be fully enjoyed without entering into this partnership of daily life.

...even the most independent people sometimes needed help. And if I'd learned nothing else from my life thus far, it was that you don't always end up where you think you're going.

It was important, I know, for my father as a product of his times not to be vulnerable, so he chose, and I can't say that I blame him, to live his life rather than create it.

I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16.

I've had cats all my life and obviously loved them, but the litter box, and the having to always get a house sitter, they're just too - they're too rigid. Cats are too needy somehow.

I've spent the first part of my life in the shadow of my family. I'm not going to live in the shadow of my husband.

Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others.

I've spent so much of my adult life in relationships that it's actually quite pleasant to be alone at last. I turned thirty-six the other day, which staggers me when I think about it.

I'm not saying I want a film career because I think I'm too good for television. I'm simply saying I want more control over my life.

She had always thought applying to college would be exciting. Living away from home, meeting so many new people, Learning new things, making a few poor life desicisons.

It is a fact that not once in all my life have I gone out for a walk. I have been taken out for walks; but that is another matter.

He always leaves us alone." This was true even in controversy. The April 17, 1949 show, Tennessee Williams's Summer and Smoke, touched off a storm of protest when it depicted a young girl turning to prostitution. "It was bad timing," Marshall conceded: it had been scheduled on Easter Sunday, and thereafter the fare on that day was confined to classics and comedies.

Humans are just another form. You're another lifeform of energy. You think you're independent of life, and you can't be that way. You're causing death. You're causing a lot of death and it's your own. And we're trying to help you, but we came and we were killed by many of you.

It does not matter what sixty-six percent of people do in any particular situation. All that matters is what you do.

I was so used to living inside my own world that I answered with whatever I had been thinking. If

not wanting contact with others" or "preferring to play alone." I can't speak for other kids, but I'd like to be very clear about my own feelings: I did not ever want to be alone.

I would make my own war movie for trick-or-treaters, one in which they would be the stars.