“It's been difficult to find roles that are independent, strong, and self-assured; I always say I can't play the princess. I'm not a pretty princess! I'm a tomboy.” I CanSelfPlayStrongDifficultRolesIndependentPrincessAssured Author:Leven Rambin
“After six years of working on low-budget independent films of the too-weird-to-watch variety, being asked by DreamWorks to come and play with the big boys, it was like finding an unicorn in your sock drawer.” YearsPlayBigsFilmBoysWatchesSixFindingsLowsIndependentVarietyBudgetsSockDrawersUnicornIndependent FilmDreamworks Author:Sienna Guillory
“In the rare event that the Supreme Court refuses to play along [...] there is always a perfectly legal, extra-constitutional, quasi-legislative, quasi-executive, quasi-judicial, "independent" regulatory commission or executive agency to kill off or override constitutional protections.” PlayEventsIndependentCourtRefuseProtectionSupremeAgencyExtrasExecutivesSupreme CourtJudicialRare Events Author:Ilana Mercer
“Our whole evolution has reached a stage where nearly every man is either ruler or ruled; sometimes he is both. By this the attitude of dependence has been greatly strengthened, for a truly free man does not like to play the part of either the ruler or the ruled. He is, above all, concerned with making his inner values and personal powers effective in a way as to permit him to use his own judgment in all affairs and to be independent in action.” MenWayDoeHas BeensSometimesPlayWholeUseActionValuesAttitudeStageEvolutionJudgmentConcernedIndependentAffairEvery ManPermitRulersDependenceFree ManPersonal Power Author:Rudolf Rocker
“Thus is order ensured: some have to play the game because they cannot otherwise live, and those who could live otherwise are kept out because they do not want to play the game. It is as if the class from which independent intellectuals have defected takes its revenge, by pressing its demands home in the very domain where the deserter seeks refuge.” IfsWantPlayHomeOrderGamesClassDemandIndependentRevengeRefugeDomain Author:Theodor Adorno
“There is no piece of music that could relate to anything else but itself and its world. It is truly an independent. The one thing coplanar with music is the compositional aspect, the fact that you are composing something. Architecture is essentially a score, and what happens with it depends on the people who play it, enjoy it, use it, or hate it.” PeopleWorldPlayFactsUseHappensHateEnjoyPiecesOne ThingDependsMusic IsAspectIndependentArchitectureRelateScoreComposing Author:Rafael Vinoly
“I did a film when I was about 30; it's a coming of age story called 'Gas Food Lodging,' and I'm so proud of that little independent film. I play this young English geologist, and he's such a simple, loving kind of guy. Doesn't talk too much. He's just a quiet guy, and he gets the girl.” KindLittlesPlayStoriesAgeFilmYoungGuyGirlSimpleToo MuchProudQuietIndependentGasComing Of AgeIndependent FilmGeologist Author:Robert Knepper
“I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.” IfsKnowsPlayFilmAbilityCareersEnglandIndependentIndependent FilmNew England Author:Randy Harrison
“I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself.” WritingPlayWantedIndependentMaverick Author:Christian McKay
“Cats are too independent. They piss me off. They play when they want, and then they turn their back on you. Dogs, you throw the ball, and they bring it back, tongue hanging out, tail wagging. Cats are like "Not right now, too busy." Definitely a dog man. Except when it comes to cleaning up after them! Cats win that!” MenWantPlayTurnsWinningDogRight NowCatBallsIndependentBusyTongueHanging OutTailsCleaningToo BusyCleaning Up Author:Denzel Washington
“What I like about being independent [in the music industry] is that anybody who does play the album on the radio and anybody who does choose to write in the media does so because they want to, because they like it or because they find something interesting there, not because they have to.” WantWritingDoePlayInterestingMediaIndustryIndependentRadioAlbumsMusic IndustrySomething Interesting Author:Ani DiFranco
“I'd like to be wanted for my body, too! As an actor I want to play all different kinds of women - independent women but also very vulnerable women.” WantKindDifferentPlayBodyWantedActorsIndependentVulnerableDifferent KindsIndependent Women Author:Rachel Weisz
“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.” WayWantKindPlayActorsSocialChallengesDarkRolesFansDramaIndependent Author:Nathalie Emmanuel
“The more baseball the better. It is a healthful sport and develops team play and initiative, plus an independent attitude.” PlaySportsAttitudeTeamBaseballIndependentPlusInitiative Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“It's only when journalists understand the role they play in this propaganda, it's only when they realize they can't be both independent, honest journalists and agents of power, that things will begin to change.” PlayRealizingRolesHonestIndependentAgentsJournalistPropaganda Author:John Pilger
“Play small ball. Get back to basics. I would say that you need to be a conservative, but you need to maintain your independent streak.” NeedsPlayBallsIndependentConservativeGet BackBasicsStreaksBack To Basics Author:Andrea Tantaros
“I've worked with a lot of people and I like to play with people when it's fun, and people that I have fun with independent of music, do you know what I mean? Where you can just joke and kid around, because you can joke and kid around with somebody and when you get in the pressure cooker of the studio then you can it's just something.” PeopleKnowsMeanPlayKidsFunJokesPressureIndependentStudiosHaving FunDo You KnowCookers Author:Joe Louis Walker
“In the States it's more and more difficult to get an independent film off the ground, and you certainly wont get the opportunity to play something like that in a studio movie.” StatesPlayFilmOpportunityDifficultIndependentStudiosIndependent Film Author:John Hurt
“I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.” YearsPlayStoriesMotherStarsGrowsGrowing UpDaughterIndependentHeavyMovie StarLife StoryIndependent WomenHairstyles Author:Patti Smith
“I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.” PlayArtistNationsRecordsIndependentFingersAlbumsLabelsToneArchesRecord Labels Author:Steve Vai
“Poland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe.” ShouldHeartPlayStrongNationsRolesEuropeIndependentProsperousPolandGreat Nations Author:George H. W. Bush
“Do you press the "pause" button - the "until" button in life by saying "I can't be happy until..."? All this accomplishes is a delay in your entry into your innate state of happiness, which is independent of outer circumstances. So press the "play" button and rejoice in the now-ness of the moment!” I CanStatesPlayMomentsHappinessCircumstancesIndependentPressesAccomplishRejoiceButtonsPausesDelayInnateEntryPause Button Author:Michael Beckwith
“The Humbling is not vintage Roth, despite its compelling premise. The bizarre series of episodes -- mostly sexual encounters with women -- which make up this short novel don't play to Roth's strengths. (...) The Humbling disappoints because it avoids these universal implications, and veers off into a baroque world of the unique and fantastic, never quite deigning to make its world concrete or to give its characters the honour of an independent will.” WorldGivingPlayCharacterNovelUniqueUniversalIndependentSeriesDespiteFantasticEncountersHonourConcreteEpisodesCompellingBizarreNever QuitPremisesImplicationsDisappointVintageHumblingBaroque Author:Philip Hensher