#independent

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost. ↗

— Chauncey Depew

#conformity #controversy #cost #counted #crackpot

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows. ↗

— Milton Glaser

#desire #element #even #grows #independent

I did seven indies because the independent market used to be a lot better before all the stars were doing independents. As a beginning actor, that's where you started. ↗

— Josh Holloway

#because #before #beginning #better #did

We turned what is virtually a glorified independent label into one of the powerhouse labels in the town. ↗

— Toby Keith

#independent #independent label #into #label #labels

Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#gonna #hit #independent #independent label #label

When you're making an independent film what you don't have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence. ↗

— Matthew Lillard

#diligence #film #independent #independent film #make

I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone. ↗

— Adriana Lima

#alone #any #apartment #coming #family

A few nights ago I went to a Hollywood screening of a small independent film made by Sally Kirkland, an old friend of mine who also did terrific job acting in it. There were other actors in it and they were all terrific. ↗

— Nick Mancuso

#ago #also #did #few #film

So most of my acting experience came in college when I was living away from them. I acted in various independent films, and I got some commercial work and stuff like that. ↗

— Maria Menounos

#acting #away #came #college #commercial

We have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed. ↗

— James Newman

#could #even #ever #existed #existence