Being independent is everything. That's all I know.

Every successful high street needs a catalyst that starts making people want to come there, and independent shops can be that catalyst. If you…

— Theo Paphitis

I'm sufficiently independent to know that I can live well and comfortably all the rest of my life whether I'm rejected or not.

— Rod Serling

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…

— Paul Beatty

Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake…

— Val Kilmer

I like being independent; I like doing things myself. I'm an instinctual person.

— Cathy Moriarty

I don't really have loads of friends - three or four who are close. The thing that I love the most is playing with…

— Tom Odell

What I was concerned about when I wrote the 'Downward Spiral' record was being a self-centred destructive force. The point was tearing down everything…

— Trent Reznor

I was really, really stagnating and getting bored in the steady work of television and didn't really know what movies I would be making…

— Alex Graves

Sometimes when you're in different countries, everything has become so homogenised and there's a Starbucks and McDonald's everywhere, and you could feel like you're…

— Will Yun Lee

One needs to constantly read up, practice and work, irrespective of your profession. If I feel as an actor that I know everything, then…

— Sonam Kapoor

There's always, I guess, a philosophy that if you come in, you want to change all the parts, you want to change everything over.…

— Pat Gillick

It's difficult to have everybody like everything you do. I don't know anybody that's perfect and doesn't have a zit somewhere.

— Gordon Bethune

I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You…

— Frank Gehry

It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So…

— Robert Caro

I have my meals delivered... you know what I like? Chicken and rice... But the problem with being a defensive lineman is, if we…

— Hugh Douglas