Julie Burchill Quotes

I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.

I always focus on myself in what I want, where I want to go, who I want to reach, which message I want to put out, how I want to dress.

When I was only eleven years old, I decided to become a writer. I told this ambition in a letter to Laura Ingalls Wilder; the die was cast. How could I go back on my word?

It's not that I don't want to become famous or that I'm obsessed by my work as an actress, but it's all about not limiting myself, such as putting myself in a little jail that I can escape from.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.

I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.

I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'

It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.

I'm probably not motivated by a lot of things that people think I am.

I'm not embarrassed to say I want to be successful, but only on my terms.

I wanted to pursue my own thing - I had desires, ideas I wanted to accomplish, and I needed to be on my own for that.

I don't like telling people what my plans are, because I have big plans.

I am going to be the best, make the most money, and just do whatever I want, when I want.

I believe in goals, but I believe that the individual should set his own. Goal setting should cause us to stretch as we make our way.

If you do not have goals of your own you are doomed forever to work to achieve the goals of someone else.

I would like to be remembered as someone who was not afraid to do what she wanted to do, and as someone who took risks along the way in order to achieve her goals.

Choosing our own aims and seeking to bring them to fruition creates a sense of vitality and motivation in life. The only things that derail our efforts are fear and oppression.

Keeping your commitment to your purpose does not depend on other people keeping theirs.

Better to dream than to be.

Money was a much saner goal than adoration. They'll both drive you crazy but if I'm going to blow my brains out for five years, I want something to show for it.

Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.

Fame is important, but to be rich is more important.

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.