#dependent

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around. ↗

— Criss Jami

#creative #different #difficulties #distinction #envy

It's none of your concern what others say or think about you. Your happiness is your own responsibility. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#happiness #ignoring #independent #joy #responsibility

I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#ceaseless #colonial #come #courageous #decades

I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#i #independent #roots #wanted #weird

My first movie was this independent that I did on the Erie Canal in 1995, called Erie, that I don't know if you could even get, actually with Felicity Huffman. And then from that I did this film that was eventually called The Broken Giant later that fall. And then I kind of started getting into doing pilots. ↗

— Will Arnett

#broken #called #canal #could #did

I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker. ↗

— Darren Aronofsky

#i #independent #night #office #realized

My good films were independent and my bad films were not. ↗

— Ralph Bakshi

#films #good #good films #independent #were

When approved, the SAFE Port Act will make progress toward protecting the physical infrastructure of our seaports as well as our national economy which is so clearly dependent on the commercial shipping business. ↗

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

#approved #business #clearly #commercial #dependent

Many foster children have had difficulty making the transition to independent living. Several are homeless, become single parents, commit crimes, or live in poverty. They are also frequent targets of crime. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#become #children #commit #crime #crimes

These children should be enrolled in Independent Living programs designed by state and local governments to prepare them to enter the workplace, or attend college, and successfully manage their lives. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#children #college #designed #enrolled #enter