David Novak Quotes

Every individual is a person necessarily imbedded in a range of multiple relations, and therefore, no one is really independent in anything but a relative sense; no one is truly autonomous.

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• I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Trying
  • Career
  • Interesting

• I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • God
  • Write
  • Speeches

• Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Think
  • Like
  • Independent

• I am an independent, strong-willed, free, and unfettered individual who lets his wife decide for him what he wants to eat.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Strong
  • Wife
  • Independent

• I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all written by myself, and then I adapted 'Tsotsi,' so I was used to the writing process being, in a way, integral to my directing. I felt it really prepared me.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Myself

• Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Children
  • Education
  • Independent

• My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Ideas
  • Independent
  • Company

• Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Money
  • Space

• I love Rihanna. She represents that strong, independent woman that you cannot keep down.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Strong
  • Woman
  • Independent

• I was an independent developer and started Junction Point in January of 2005.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Independent
  • Point
  • January

• In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Taken
  • Child

• Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Party
  • Question
  • Independent

• I really wanted to work and become independent.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Become

• I definitely think independent film is very exciting, and you get to sometimes take bigger risks. So that's always a challenge and something that I look forward to.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Think
  • Challenge
  • Independent

• For me, as an actor, there is no commercial or independent or art cinema. For me, it's a character that is given by the director. And it is a task for me that I have to fulfill it to the best of my ability regardless of the kind of film that it is.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Art
  • Character
  • Best

• As an independent artist, you control the means of production, which is the ultimate form of empowerment.

  

  K. Flay
  • Control
  • Artist
  • Independent

• It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days you could go and get a certain amount of the budget with foreign sales, now everybody wants a marketable angle.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Independent
  • Sales
  • Budget

• I come from Venezuela, from the independent film arena, and you work with one camera.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Camera

• I am an independent girl. I always put my work first in my priority.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Priority

• I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Life
  • Up
  • She

• One good thing about California is we have quite a broad-based economy. We provide more fruits and vegetables and produce to the United States than any other state. So we have actually the single largest agricultural sector in the country.

  

  Meg Whitman
  • Good
  • Country
  • Single

• My philosophy is that you can't motivate players with speeches, you have motivated players that you draft. That's where they come in and those are the guys that are competitive. You cannot teach competitiveness.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Motivated
  • Motivate

• Every individual is a person necessarily imbedded in a range of multiple relations, and therefore, no one is really independent in anything but a relative sense; no one is truly autonomous.

  

  David Novak
  • Independent