“I have achieved what I wanted to achieve. I'm better off at some sort of independent place where they not only like what I produce but also trust me to be the one to produce it.” WantedAchieveProduceIndependentBetter OffTrust Me Author:Keith Olbermann
“I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.” RunningWantedPayIndependentBillsBadassIndependent WomenBeing Independent Woman Author:Diane von Furstenberg
“I can tell from the tone of his voice and the thought processes in getting to where he's at that there's no point in talking to him further. He wanted to make that decision independent of all other factors and we respect that. [on Damien Martyn retiring” I CanWantedProcessVoiceDecisionTalkingIndependentFactorsToneRetiringNo PointThought ProcessTalking To Him Author:Ian Chappell
“I went to the top of the mountain in television and could do anything I wanted, but I wanted to do an independent film, which results in you paying your own way, fighting like hell to get distribution, and maybe 30 people will see it. That was a good idea.” PeopleWayIdeasWantedFilmFightingResultsHellTelevisionMountainIndependentGood IdeasDistributionIndependent Film Author:Joel Surnow
“I always wanted to experience the street life because my teenage life in Aberdeen was so boring. But I was never really independent enough to do it. I applied for food stamps, lived under the bridge, and built a fort at the cedar mill.” EnoughWantedStreetsBuiltIndependentBoringBridgesTeenageStampsMillsFortsSo BoringFood StampsCedarsStreet LifeTeenage LifeAberdeen Author:Kurt Cobain
“My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, and she thought it was too crazy for me. She wanted me to be married with children, to be independent, yes, but not to have a crazy life.” WantChildrenWantedMotherCrazyFashionBrotherMarriedIndependentMy BrotherWant MeBeing MarriedMarried With ChildrenCrazy LifeFashion Business Author:Donatella Versace
“I had been with the label since I was 21. The label wanted shiny pop but I didn't. I found a little independent and we've got all these great reviews in England and now it has gone gold.” LittlesWantedFoundGoneGoldEnglandIndependentPopsLabelsReviews Author:Alison Moyet
“Catholic school gave me the tools to reject the very religion they wanted me to have. They taught me how to think for myself and to be independent.” ThinkingWantedSchoolTaughtToolsIndependentCatholicRejectsCatholic School Author:George Carlin
“I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself.” WritingPlayWantedIndependentMaverick Author:Christian McKay
“My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.” WantedParentTeacherCollegeIndependentBossNurseSecretaryEmployedLibrarianSiblingMy SiblingsContractor Author:Bette Midler
“I feel like an independent man, and I am. This is the kind of feeling I always wanted. You can rarely get that... Well, I could rarely get that in the early part of my life.” MenFeelsWellsKindFeelingsWantedIndependent Author:Jack Kirby
“Everybody was willing to give me a job. But I wanted to do something different. I saw myself as an independent person, self-employed.” GivingPersonsDifferentSelfWantedJobsSawsWillingGive MeIndependentEmployedIndependent Person Author:Paul Rusesabagina
“My parents had an independent theater company here in Sweden during the 1980s, so I was raised watching my parents create independently, having a lot of fun and just doing what they wanted to do. I think that idea of independence as an artist was something I was always used to. And then I entered the industry from a very commercial perspective, and things were very different then from what I grew up with.” ThinkingIdeasDifferentWantedUsedArtistFunParentCompanyPerspectiveGrewIndustryGrew UpTheaterIndependentIndependenceRaisedSweden Author:Robyn
“When the publisher here in America wanted to put the word "memoir" on the title page [of 'Winter Journal'] and on the cover, I said, "No, no, no, no, no, no." No genre whatsoever. It's an independent work not really connected to those things at all.” SaidWantedAmericaPagesIndependentWinterConnectedMemoirTitlesGenreJournalPublishers Author:Paul Auster
“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 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.” MenWantFeelsHomeWantedMotherIndependentBack HomeMiamiPersonal Things Author:SpaceGhostPurrp
“I'd always wanted to work in television once I found out that they started to hire independent filmmakers to direct.” WantedFoundTelevisionDirectIndependentFilmmaker Author:Lynn Shelton
“I don't have too much interest in teaching other people how to get rich. And that isn't because I fear the competition or anything like that - Warrenhas always been very open about what he's learned, and I share that ethos. My personal behavior model is Lord Keynes: I wanted to get rich so I could be independent, and so I could do other things like give talks on the intersection of psychology and economics. I didn't want to turn it into a total obsession.” PeopleWantGivingWantedTurnsInterestLordRichPsychologyToo MuchShareTeachingBehaviorModelsEconomicsIndependentCompetitionObsessionGet RichEthosIntersectionsKeynesTeaching OthersPersonal Behavior Author:Charlie Munger
“What I liked about Mulder was his quality of not caring what other people thought of him. He was very independent. He wasn't interested in women. I liked that. He had kind of an intellectual quest, but not a sexual quest. That was the challenge of Mulder. Here was a guy that got almost sexually excited about aliens. And I wanted to be able to do that!” PeopleKindAbleWantedGuyChallengesQualityIntellectualIndependentExcitedCaringAliensQuestsSexuallyNot Caring Author:David Duchovny
“The very, very first thing that I wanted was to make a living - be independent and have a job. It might have come later, that kind of reaction to the boringness of fashion.” FirstsKindMightWantedJobsFashionIndependentReactions Author:Rei Kawakubo
“I wanted to make sure the focus [in The Land] was on human beings themselves and their decisions, but still connected to the urban environment that people associate as being black. I think I was able to make a film without commenting on "black this or black that" and you still feel the presence of it. There's no one character who's saying "we're all black and we're all in this struggle." It's that you just feel it. Some of that is because we get the sense from a lot of independent films that black people struggle all the time.” PeopleThinkingFeelsHumansStillsCharacterAbleWantedFilmBlackHuman BeingsDecisionStruggleEnvironmentFocusLandIndependentConnectedBlack PeopleUrbanAssociatesIndependent FilmAll BlackUrban Environment Author:Steven Caple Jr.
“I had been with a guy for seven years and I was done with that. I wanted to reinvent my whole life and change my hair - I'd had brown, straight extensions forever - and I just wanted to get rid of that, to shed skin, and really just be independent.” YearsDoneWholeWantedGuyForeverHairSkinsIndependentSevenWhole LifeBrownShedExtensionsSeven YearsLife And Change Author:Jillian Hervey
“I've spoken about this completely independent of this movie prior to ever being attached to this film that as a kid the first movie that I remember seeing that resonated with me was the Wizard of Oz. I think just visually the color, the spectrum of it and how fantastical it was and how much you wanted to live in that world, for a nine-year old was so magical and so grand so I have the greatest, fondest memories of it.” ThinkingWorldYearsFirstsKidsWantedRememberFilmMemoriesSeeingColorIndependentNineWizardsSpectrumNine Years Author:Mila Kunis
“My British publisher has this independent press. It's pretty small; they actually won last year. And she's got this great energy, and she's fiercely independent, and you know this book was a hard sell. No one wanted to buy this book. But she did, and so it's paid off for her, I hope.” KnowsYearsBookHardWantedLastsEnergyPaidIndependentSellsPressesBritishLast YearPublishersPaid Off Author:Paul Beatty
“What the framers of the Constitution tried to achieve when they wrote that Constitution back in the 1700s was an independent federal judiciary. They wanted federal judges to be appointed by the president, with the advice and consent of the Senate, and to serve for good behavior.” WantedPresidentAchieveAdviceJudgingBehaviorConstitutionIndependentSenateConsentJudiciaryFramersGood BehaviorFederal Judges Author:Sandra Day O'Connor
“I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone” MenWellsMadeDoneEnoughWantedSupportIndependentDamnMen WomenWomen WantIndependent WomenInternational Women's DayStrong Independent WomenInternational Women DayBeing Independent WomanProud WomanSupport Women Author:Katharine Hepburn
“I really wanted to work and become independent.” WantedIndependentIndependent Women Author:Victoria Abril
“I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.” WantedMy OwnCareersIndependentRight ThingAlimonySecond Marriage Author:Linda Evans
“I wanted to make a concrete impression; the idea of a woman that is free, moody, never the object, one that has a complete control of her finances and knows how it is to be independent.” KnowsIdeasWantedKnow HowObjectsIndependentImpressionFinanceConcreteMoody Author:Paco Rabanne
“I’ve always tried to be independent. It’s just my personality. I’ve always been the type to motivate the camp. I’ve always wanted to be the fuel for something—for music, the fuel for my family, the fuel for my best friend. Helping someone with what I’m doing.” HelpingWantedTypePersonalityMy FamilyIndependentFuelCampsMy Best FriendHelping Someone Author:Rita Ora
“I never wanted an independent Bosnia. I wanted Yugoslavia. That is my country.” CountryWantedIndependentBosniaYugoslavia Author:Emir Kusturica