Quotes About Autonomy

I am a person. I am not a soap opera. There is never going to be a next [tabloid] installment about my life because my own stuff is my own stuff.

It's like having children. You give birth, but then they take on a life of their own. That's what actors do for characters. It's pretty amazing.

People have choices in this life. They should exercise them responsibly.

Of all the groups that sometimes claim to own your life, family is the hardest to defend your individual sovereignty from.

For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.

I don't think anybody can really sit down and decide that their mission in life is to make people think. I think their mission in life is to leave people alone!

For so long I just let people surmise what they would about my life and my choices, and other people have written books and told tales.

Don't allow the unrealistic demands of others to march freely into your 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.

My life is not a game that I play to entertain you.

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

Not wanting to give everyone in your life one of your kidneys is not the same thing as hoping they die of kidney failure.

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...

The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.

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.

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.

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.

Human beings crave freedom at their core.

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves that is our only commitment to others.

Don't ... depend on current fashion or ... popular opinion.

As Washington, Adams, and Jefferson reached the cusp of adulthood, each exhibited a passion for independence. Each hungered for emancipation from the entanglements of childhood and sought to carve out an autonomous existence. The handmaiden to each young man's zeal for self-mastery was a propulsive ambition that drove him to yearn for more than his father had attained, for more even than his father had ever hoped to achieve.