I get called to do a lot of labors of love... INDEPENDENT films on very SMALL budgets. If I have the TIME and if the project speaks to me, it's BETTER than sitting around, RIGHT?

I think maybe my mom thought that Katharine HEPBURN would be a good role model of, like, a strong, smart, independent woman. Maybe she steered me in that direction. You KNOW, because she was REALLY so ahead of her time.

The ARTIST I would LOVE to be is INSPIRING and strong: show that I can be vulnerable but STILL independent.

For WOMEN especially, it's IMPORTANT to be FINANCIALLY INDEPENDENT.

I have a LOT of sides to my PERSONALITY and what you see on 'The Hills' is a STRONG, INDEPENDENT woman, which I am. But I also have a sensitive SIDE that I don't show too much.

There's no BETTER FEELING than being INDEPENDENT and doing for yourself.

The WORLD is INDEPENDENT of my will.

I THINK it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an INDEPENDENT function necessary LIKE sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more CHILDREN, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

What we TRY to say is that it doesn't MATTER if you are a Republican or a Democrat or conservative or independent. You are equally RESPONSIBLE for your place in the culture, and you must make a contribution, and you must ACCEPT responsibility for what goes down on your watch.

Politicians MUST set their AIMS for the high ground and ACCORDING to our various leanings, Democratic, REPUBLICAN, INDEPENDENT, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

I was a very INDEPENDENT TEENAGER.

I don't LIKE PEOPLE TELLING me what to do. I'm very INDEPENDENT.

Amy Rapp, my producing partner, and I are drawn to character-driven material. We're developing and producing movies and TV, FICTION and non-fiction, STUDIO and independent, broadcast and CABLE, theatre, and web so our slate is really diverse.

I associate CREATIVITY with INDEPENDENT MUSIC.

When you have a SENATE that is 50 DEMOCRATS and 49 Republicans and one independent, it's QUITE obvious that the only way we are going to GET something done is if we work together.