In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.
The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.
To be successfully independent, you must view life as if all of your love ones are dead and the world is against you.
I grew up pretty fast. I had more responsibility than most 9-year-olds, and I've always been independent.
I'm completely ecstatic when a woman has own back story and brings something to the table and has a real strong kind of independence.
There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).
In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story.
Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.
I needed to grow up and do things all adults do. It was time to stop having everything spoon fed to me. It was about being independent.
With directing, you always have three or four things constantly on the go. It's a tough industry and a tough time, particularly if you're doing things a little outside the box or independent features.
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious.
That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.
I believe the reason for my early independence is sport, through which I learnt at an early stage to take care of myself and be disciplined.
I know there's a certain love and affection for the homemade on the Internet, and I'm all for that, too, and I appreciate it in alternative music, and I appreciate it in B-movies and in Sundance, independent films.
I love indie movies. I think that independent cinema is where it's at and where a lot of trends begin. It's where new filmmakers are breaking through.
The BBC were not playing the music that was happening on the street so we did an independent production because we knew we had an audience. Then we licensed the album to EMI.
Music companies and buyers are not too encouraging towards independent musicians. Everyone wants to play safe and go with established names, but unless one breaks this routine, no new talent will come and survive.
Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.
Even when I was modelling, I never had a mom sitting on my head and a bunch of people waiting on me. I've always been independent. I'll do my thing and go.
Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.
