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“The great thing about an independent film is that you're too busy working, and you're too busy hoping to God to get it done.”

Done Film Independent Busy Great Things Too Busy Independent Film Get It Done

Author:Ann Dowd

“I like collaboration, I like to incorporate other people's ideas [and] that's what happens when you do a big movie. Unless you're called Stanley Kubrick and you do an independent movie for like $200 million.”

People Ideas Bigs Happens Millions Independent Collaboration Stanley Big Movie

Author:Michel Gondry

“I'm just thinking of 2001, which I think is the most expensive independent film ever made - which is great, someday I hope I will do one. But I know the parameters when I got onto this project - I have to take care of everyone, make sure that they are all on board, and this process interests me.”

Thinking Knows Made Care Film Process Interest Projects Independent Take Care Boards Expensive Someday Independent Film Parameters

Author:Michel Gondry

“When I started producing it was right at the beginning Channel 4 in England. Nicholas Nickelby which was my first credit as a producer was Contract 001 at Channel 4 - that was the start of independent production in England and the emergence of an independent sector.”

Firsts England Independent Productions Credit Producers Contracts Emergence

Author:Colin Callender

“Stay true to yourself because a lot of times women get so wrapped up in doing for a man that we forget to focus on us. A lot of times that is unattractive. They love us because we are independent and focused on the things that make us happy. Because when they see you happy, their happy!”

Men Forget Focus Independent Focused True To Yourself Stay True Unattractive Stay True To Yourself

Author:Gabrielle Dennis

“I'm definitely a fan of sort of dramas, independent sort of social dramas where you play really challenging roles. Every actor wants to play those dark roles and it's definitely true for me and I'd love to kind of challenge myself in any way possible.”

Way Want Kind Play Actors Social Challenges Dark Roles Fans Drama Independent

Author:Nathalie Emmanuel

“We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America. How else is the world to take America seriously, when democracy at home is daily being outraged, free speech suppressed, peaceable assemblies broken up by overbearing and brutal gangsters in uniform; when free press is curtailed and every independent opinion gagged? Verily, poor as we are in democracy, how can we give of it to the world?”

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Author:Emma Goldman

“TV's sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.”

Tvs Independent Destroyed Urges Sameness Independent Thought

Author:Bennett Cerf

“If protesting against having a nuclear bomb implanted in my brain is anti-Hindu and anti-national, then I secede. I hereby declare myself an independent, mobile republic. I am a citizen of the earth. I own no territory. I have no flag. My policies are simple. I'm willing to sign any nuclear non-proliferation treaty or nuclear test ban treaty that's going. Immigrants are welcome. You can help me design our flag.”

“We hear the term independent contractors in Iraq. Independent contractors? Mercenaries!”

Term Independent Iraq Contractor

Author:Studs Terkel

“The one who wanders independent in the world, free from opinions and viewpoints, does not grasp them and enter into disputations and arguments. As the lotus rises on its stalk unsoiled by the mud and the water, so the wise one speaks of peace and is unstained by the opinions of the world.”

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Author:Gautama Buddha

“Gandhi was only minding his own business when he took a walk to get some salt and ended up overthrowing the British Empire. You can't set out to overthrow an empire, but if you have to get some salt then get some salt. If you have to write some independent songs that are honest, just write them. If you have to do a day job stacking shelves, so be it.”

Ifs Writing Jobs Song Walks Honest Independent British Empires Salt Shelves Own Business British Empire Day Jobs Stacking

Author:David Knopfler

“The best thing you can give to a child is to create an environment where the child can develop an independent mind so that he will be the man of no one and the instrument of no system!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The more independent mind you have the more your government will hate you! It is an honour for you to be hated this way!”

Way Mind Government Hate Independent Hated Honour Hate You

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Independent travel does that, bringing temporarily together these wandering ships that would otherwise pass in the night. Relationships were mostly brief and sometimes downright fleeting. The barriers and masks of settled existence melted away, allowing strangers to become fast friends, if only for a day. We travellers needed that, having deliberately stepped away from the social safety net of family, school, work and community.”

Ifs Doe Sometimes School Together Night Social Community Existence Needed Independent Safety Stranger Ships Wander Mask Barriers Allowing Fleeting Traveller Safety Net School Work

Author:John Haines

“Going to LSU was the right move for me. It taught me to be independent.”

Moving Taught Independent Lsu

Author:Seimone Augustus

“In studying the action of the Analytical Engine, we find that the peculiar and independent nature of the considerations which in all mathematical analysis belong to operations, as distinguished from the objects operated upon and from the results of the operations performed upon those objects, is very strikingly defined and separated.”

Action Results Study Objects Independent Defined Mathematical Operations Analysis Consideration Peculiar Engines Distinguished Mathematical Analysis

Author:Ada Lovelace

“The further we analyse the manner in which such an engine performs its processes and attains its results, the more we perceive how distinctly it places in a true and just light the mutual relations and connexion of the various steps of mathematical analysis; how clearly it separates those things which are in reality distinct and independent, and unites those which are mutually dependent.”

Reality Light Process Results Steps Relation Independent Various Mathematical Perceive Analysis Dependent Mutual Engines Connexion Mathematical Analysis

Author:Ada Lovelace

“It must be evident how multifarious and how mutually complicated are the considerations which the working of such an engine involve. There are frequently several distinct sets of effects going on simultaneously; all in a manner independent of each other, and yet to a greater or less degree exercising a mutual influence.”

Greater Influence Effects Exercise Degrees Independent Complicated Consideration Mutual Engines Evident

Author:Ada Lovelace

“My mom had a job, and she also took care of us, and she also took care of Dad - I always saw her pulling triple duty, doing more than I ever felt like she needed to. I made a promise to myself that it would be more of a team effort in my family someday. And because of that, I became more independent.”

Made Would Be Care Jobs Felt Effort Saws Team Duty Mom Needed Dad Promise My Family Independent My Mom Someday Pulling Team Effort

Author:Carrie Underwood

“Technically I have siblings, but they are quite a bit older than me - I was the accident - so I have the only-child syndrome going on. I'm a little more selfish, a little more independent, a little closed. I do wish I were softer. I wish I were able to form relationships better.”

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Author:Carrie Underwood

“I used to take hostages in my relationships and not let people be independent. It always ended in disaster, because you take away people's identity and they end up full of resentment.”

People Ends Used Identity Independent Disaster Resentment Hostage

Author:Elton John

“A state-of-the-art calculation requires 100 hours of CPU time on the state-of-the-art computer, independent of the decade.”

Art States Hours Computer Independent Decades Calculations

Author:Edward Teller

“There are certain things about me that I will never tell to anyone because I am a very private person. But basically, what you see is who I am. I'm independent, I do like to be liked, I do look for the good side of life and people. I'm positive, I'm disciplined, I like my life in order, and I'm neat as a pin.”

People Looks Persons Certain Order Sides Independent Who I Am Pins Neat

Author:Mary Tyler Moore

“It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation.”

Government Nations Republican Independent Supreme Branches Supreme Power Branches Of Government

Book:Democracy

Source: Democracy

“The problem is that groups are only smart when the people in them are as independent as possible. This is the paradox of the wisdom of crowds.”

People Problem Groups Smart Independent Crowds Paradox

Author:James Surowiecki

“When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.”

Thinking Men Sacrifice Independent Richness Conformist Independent Thinking

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Oh, I love making independent films, it's such a special, magical thing because you collaborate with a small group of people and everyone's pitching in. You'll see producers setting up the lunch table and the sound guy driving a van. We're all really there because we want to be.”

People Want Film Guy Sound Groups Special Independent Tables Driving Setting Producers Settings Lunch Vans Pitching Love Making Independent Film Small Groups

Author:Olivia Thirlby

“We [he and his wife Trish Van Devere] don't talk politics. I'm an independent conservative; she's a radical Democrat. We never vote together.”

Together Wife Vote Independent Democrat Conservative Radical Vans

Author:George C. Scott

“My aim has been... to keep the United States... independent of all and under the influence of none.”

Has Beens States United United States Influence Aim Independent

Book:Washington's Farewell address: the view from the 20th century

Source: Washington's Farewell address: the view from the 20th century

“Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.”

Thinking Government Political Choices Politics President Position Absolutes Independent Vices Loyalty Administration Vice President

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“The coexistence of opposites - stillness and dynamism - makes you independent... When you quietly acknowledge this exquisite coexistence of opposites, you align yourself with the world of energy - the quantum soup, the non-material non-stuff that is the source of the material world. This world energy is fluid, dynamic, resilient, changing, forever in motion. And yet it is also non-changing, still, quiet, eternal and silent.”

“I enjoy doing independent films more, only because there's more freedom. There's not as many cooks tampering with what you are trying to do.”

Trying Film Enjoy Independent Cooks Independent Film

Author:Illeana Douglas

“The best defense against the terror of existence are the homely comforts of love, work, and family life, which connect us to a world that is independent of our wishes yet responsive to our needs.”

World Needs Wish Existence Comfort Independent Terror Defense Family Life Homely

Author:Christopher Lasch

“I didn't want to sign with A$AP Worldwide at the time because I was going through some personal things and I had to go back home to my mother in Miami. I also just wanted to feel independent as a man.”

Men Want Feels Home Wanted Mother Independent Back Home Miami Personal Things

Author:SpaceGhostPurrp

“The definite link between all the women who wear my designs is that they are strong, independent, and with their own opinions.”

Strong Opinion Design Independent Links Definite Strong Independent

Author:Roksanda Ilincic

“Directors typically have three choices - you do a studio movie and get a paycheck up front, you do an independent movie, which is for your heart and you don't get paid up front and probably don't make any money on it, but it hopefully goes to Sundance and is more of an art movie, and then you do TV.”

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Author:Jason Blum

“It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.”

Seems Film Independent Mainstream Independent Film

Author:William Hurt

“A Christian is free and independent in every respect, a bond servant to none. A Christian is a dutiful servant in every respect, owing a duty to everyone.”

Christian Duty Independent Servant Owing

Book:The basis of the Protestant Reformation

Source: The basis of the Protestant Reformation

“Parents, do you wish to see your children happy? Take care, then, that you train them to obey when they are spoken to, -to do as they are bid.... Teach them to obey while young, or else they will be fretting against God all their lives long, and wear themselves out with the vain idea of being independent of His control.”

Children Long Ideas Care Young Wish Parent Teach Our Children Independent Train Take Care Vain Your Children Long Life Fretting

Author:J. C. Ryle

“To lead a child (or anyone else!), even inadvertently, away from faithfulness, away from loyalty and bedrock belief simply because we want to be clever or independent is license no parent nor any other person has ever been given.”

Want Children Persons Belief Given Parent Independent Loyalty Clever License Faithfulness Bedrock

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“To make a real independent film where the filmmaker is in charge creatively, one must sacrifice personal, financial, and physical well-being.”

Wells Real Film Sacrifice Independent Financial Well Being Filmmaker Independent Film

Author:Mark Polish

“Paste Magazine really embodies all that's left of a true independent thought and expression in music journalism in the states right now. Please support the cause and lift them up to keep them moving forward.”

States Moving Left Causes Support Expression Please Right Now Independent Moving Forward Magazines Journalism Lifts Independent Thought

Author:Shawn Mullins

“Nothing is more important to national security and the making and conduct of good policy than timely, accurate, and relevant intelligence. Nothing is more critical to accurate and relevant intelligence than independent analysis.”

Important Security Policy Independent Critical Analysis Relevant Accurate National Security Timely

Author:Dennis C. Blair

“The reality is that our independent judiciary is the most respected branch of our government and the envy of the world.”

World Reality Government Independent Envy Branches Judiciary Independent Judiciary

Author:Ted Olson

“The world's greatest city - New York City - deserves a government that works for all New Yorkers. That starts with a mayor who is independent from party bosses and special interests, who isn't afraid to be honest with the people, and who is focused on the issues New Yorkers care about most.”

People World Government Care Interest Party Cities Issues Special Honest New York Deserve Independent Focused Being Honest Boss New York City New Yorkers Mayors Special Interests

Author:Sal Albanese

“The American independent cinema is as formulaic as Hollywood and one genre is what you might call the 'inaction movie'. The setting is invariably a decaying town in a regional backwater where a catalytic stranger or returning native meets up with a group of sad, eccentric outsiders.”

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Author:Philip French

“An independent judiciary does not mean judges independent of the Constitution from which they derive their power or independent of the laws that they are sworn to uphold.”

Mean Doe Law Judging Constitution Independent Judiciary Independent Judiciary

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.”

Hard Genius Independent Idiot Thinker

Author:James Cook

“Nothing is more favorable to the rise of politeness and learning, than a number of neighboring and independent states, connected together by commerce and policy.”

States Together Numbers Policy Independent Connected Commerce Politeness

Book:Philosophical works

Source: Philosophical works

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