Marian McPartland Quotes

I like having the space of my own project.

I had always been a free spirit and always gotten what I wanted.

I have my life, my world. I do what I want, without annoying anyone.

I was born with a fierce need for independence.

I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.

I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.

I have my own life to live.

People should just let me be.

You have to make your own family, your own life.

When you're alone, it's easier," she said a little wistfully. "You can do what you want. You don't have to go home.

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.

I just go at my own pace and I like control of the TV and I like to decide when I take a shower and wash the dishes and stuff like that. So I don't know who would want to live with me to be honest!

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms; they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.

I'm my own person, and am trying to carve out a career on my own.

One of mom's greatest acts of generosity was that she trained me to be defiant. Her great gift to me was encouraging me to be the person that I wanted to be, not the one that she and my father wished I was.

It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.

I love the freedom of having my own space and my own place and doing things on my terms, and not really having to think about anybody else's schedule.

I have great friends around me that are positive and I think that's the key to life is making your own path. Set your own rules because there is no set rule, there is no set look, there is no set anything. You make your own rules in your life. You make your own decisions.

I like being independent; I like doing things myself. I'm an instinctual person.

I do need my independence. I have to have that.