Quotes About Autonomy

I prefer to work at my own pace.

I've always found success in sort of separating myself from the pack mentality things.

Never have anyone else carry your luggage. Pack only what you need.

I like acting for myself as a director. I act and I know that I'll have a chance to have some say in what gets used and that I'll be able to give myself enough takes and be on the same page as myself about how the scene should play.

I just feel I'm on a different page from the reviewers, so I've learned not to care about them too much.

My father paid for my education; then he made it clear that I was on my own.

I paid my own bills even when I was married and my husband could have easily paid them.

I've always paid my own way, I've never lived off anyone.

If you live your life as a hostage to everybody else's decision, you either have to live a very narrow life, or you have to spend a lot of time in pain.

I paint my own nails and only get my hair cut when it really needs it.

I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.

When you own a pair of haircutting scissors, you cut your own hair constantly.

I understand that if I really need my hair to be nice, now I hire someone to do it, and I understand that putting on a pair of heels really makes a difference.

The Palestinian Arabs will have their autonomy, we will have our security. We shall live together.

It's for the Palestinians to decide who will lead them.

Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself. I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette, but if I do, then within that, I can be creative.

Some people ask me whether I'm a 'mama's girl' or a 'papa's girl.' I'm nobody's girl. My brother clings to our parents; I'm the one shoving them out the door.

Yes, we have prototyped cars that can drive by themselves, but without smart vision, they cannot really tell the difference between a crumpled paper bag on the road, which can be run over, and a rock that size, which should be avoided.

Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.

I am no parasite.

We are not naughty children, and the state is not our parent.

I am not a team player, including my inadequacies as a parent.

I've thought for years, sometimes against my will, about what kind of son I'm supposed to be, what's expected. Being Korean, that's a particularly charged question. Is your duty to your culture or to your parent? Is your life your own, or the second half of your parents' life? Who owns your life?

I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.