“Television is making, there was in independent film renaissance late '80s through the mid-90's. It was an amazing time. Television is doing that right now. So that's why everybody wants to do it. I mean if you're writing stuff like, you know, Fargo, or True Detective, or any of these things that are on, Breaking Bad, there are no rules in television.” IfsKnowsWantWritingMeanFilmStuffTelevisionLike YouRight NowLateIndependent80sDetectivesRenaissanceIndependent FilmFargo Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“I'm thinking of writing a children's story about a leaf on a tree who arrogantly insists he's a self-made, independent leaf. Then one day a fierce wind blows him off his branch and to the ground below. As his life slowly ebbs away, he looks up at the magnificent old tree that had been his home and realizes that he had never been on his own. His entire life he had been part of something bigger and more beautiful than anything he could have imagined. In a blinding flash, he awakens from the delusion of self. Then an arrogant, self-centered kid rakes him up and bags him.” ThinkingWritingLooksChildrenMadeSelfStoriesHomeKidsBeautifulRealizingTreeWindOne DayBiggerIndependentBlowBranchesLook UpBagsDelusionArrogantFierceFlashMagnificentLeafsSelf CenteredSelf MadeRakesOld Trees Author:Chuck Lorre
“Consultation and compliance can conduce little to the perfection of any literary performance; for whoever is so doubtful of his own abilities as to encourage the remarks of others, will find himself every day embarrassed with new difficulties, and will harass his mind, in vain, with the hopeless labour of uniting heterogeneous ideas, digesting independent hints, and collecting into one point the several rays of borrowed light, emitted often with contrary directions.” WritingMindLittlesIdeasLightAbilityPerfectionPerformancesDifficultyIndependentContraryVainLabourHopelessRaysEmbarrassedRemarksCollectingHintsBorrowedDoubtfulComplianceUnitingConsultation Book:Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings Source: Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings
“The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the language used.” WritingUsedLanguageLinesNumbersPeriodsIndependentCodeFixedProgrammers Author:Fernando J. Corbato
“I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself.” WritingPlayWantedIndependentMaverick Author:Christian McKay
“I'm a very independent person, I love being alone, writing and doing music and stuff.” WritingPersonsStuffLove IsIndependentIndependent Person Author:Julie Delpy
“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
“As an independent artist it is so easy to get caught up in websites, social media, merchandise, when I am going to put out an EP, fining a producer, finding a studio to record in and you have to remember at the end of the day you should be writing music.” ShouldWritingEndsRememberArtistSocialEasyRecordsMediaFindingsIndependentCaughtStudiosSocial MediaProducersThe End Of The DayCaught UpWebsiteEasy To GetWriting MusicMerchandise Author:Tyler Hilton
“Writing music obviously comes from being inspired by things, and big changes in your life, and relationships and growing older and being more independent.” WritingBigsGrowingIndependentInspiredGrowing OldGrowing OlderWriting MusicBig Changes Author:Tristan Prettyman
“Writers generally get into writing because they want to write, not because they want to be independent publishers, and you can't really fault someone for saying, 'What I'm doing right now works, so there's no reason to change it.'” WantWritingReasonRight NowIndependentFaultsNo ReasonPublishersDoing Right Author:Jennifer Armintrout
“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.” IfsWritingJobsSongWalksHonestIndependentBritishEmpiresSaltShelvesOwn BusinessBritish EmpireDay JobsStacking Author:David Knopfler
“Statistically in the UK, there are so many fewer female composers than male songwriters and they're marketed in a way that - females are marketed in a way that they're these independent unique artists writing their own stuff, and they're not, because fourteen percent of PRS goes to women.” WayWritingArtistStuffUniquePercentFemaleIndependentMalesComposerFewerSongwritersFourteen Author:Kate Nash
“I really (became) very independent. I was start(ed) to write one-woman shows and mak(e) films and to me I think I really felt like my choice (was) more important than any kind of career goal.” ThinkingWritingKindImportantShowsFilmChoicesFeltGoalCareersIndependentOne WomanCareer Goals Author:Margaret Cho
“The experience that I had in Paris I could never have ever again in my life. This is when I grew up as a young man. I was independent. There was no one there to talk to; I didn't even want to talk to anyone. I started to write about what I was experiencing, and I had no choice, so I was never scared.” MenWantWritingYoungChoicesGrewGrew UpIndependentScaredParisYoung Man Author:Benjamin Clementine
“I would say "These Days." It was the title song to an album I put out, and it's really this song that you'll hear throughout the episodes and the season in the show. I write all my music, I'm an independent artist so we do it all in-house and that song embodies exactly what the title says.” WritingShowsArtistSongHouseSeasonsIndependentAlbumsThese DaysTitlesEpisodes Author:Mike Stud
“For many American-Jewish writers, the dominant motifs have been cultural, secular, sometimes comic, often satirical. Writing about the religious component of Judaism, I found my own themes independent of the New York experience and the immigrant experience.” WritingSometimesReligiousIndependentComicSecularJudaismSatirical Author:Allegra Goodman
“Deanell Tacha and I decided to write an editorial, because both of us have had experiences in countries where the rule of law is not strong. Uh, where there is civil war. Where there is disorder. And, it, it seemed to us important to underscore that this is a treasure, our rule of law, our judiciary independent from politics, and it's in jeopardy.” WritingImportantWarCountryStrongIndependentCivil WarRule Of LawJudiciary Author:Martha Minow
“I had been really obsessed with Jonestown for a long time - many years - and had read everything there was to read about it, seen all the footage and the documentaries. I found it really chilling in a personal way - the question of people submitting all their personal power and agency and independent thought it the name of a group or ideology. I could not find a way to write about it directly that didn't feel too heavy.” PeopleWritingLongIndependentIdeologyObsessedChillIndependent Thought Author:Danzy Senna
“You know how some people are upwardly mobile? I'm sort of downwardly mobile in the publishing world, because of my sales figures and also because of the kind of books I write. Everything really counts on sales. I started out with a bigger press, my first few books. But I've always done some things with independent and small presses and small magazines and I always will.” PeopleWorldWritingKindBookDoneIndependentPublishing Author:Lynne Tillman
“If there's one thing that can save the novel, it is to make it independent of cinema, to narrate in a way that cinema can never narrate, using to its benefit those particular characteristics which belong to writing.” WritingNovelIndependent Author:Agustin Fernandez Mallo
“Democrats cannot win elections without capturing the votes of independent-minded swing voters. And that is where writing off the Tea Party as a bunch of racist kooks becomes self-destructive. The Tea Party outrage over health-care reform, deficit spending and entitlements run amok is no fringe concern.” WritingSelfCareRunningWinningPartyConcernVoteIndependentElectionDemocratSpendingBunchReformTeaHealth CareDestructiveRacistVotersSwingsDeficitFringeEntitlementOutrageTea PartySelf DestructiveHealth Care ReformDeficit Spending Author:Juan Williams
“I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.” IfsWritingHeartMovingDesireSongBrokenIndependentBroken HeartBeing In LoveIndependent WomenBeing Independent Woman Author:Katerina Graham
“Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify, or rather to appease the anger of those who cannot abide independent minds.” MenWritingMindBelieveLawOpinionAtheismIndependentPositive AtheismAppease Author:Baruch Spinoza