Jim Jefferies Quotes

Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.

Doing 'All Good Things' really felt like I was acting for myself rather than anyone else. It gave me a freedom I'd never had before, or knew I had, to do whatever I want to, and to argue my opinions and not just feel like the cute girl on set or the girl in a boy's club. I figured out how I could be both. And it's been different ever since.

I'm glad that in this sport you can write your own stories, and you don't have to worry about what other people expect out of you.

I've done a lot of collaboration over the years, but right now I'm enjoying writing by myself and just being me again for a while.

I could finally quit my job as a bartender and stop dreaming that I might be Superman and know that I was. Then I started thinking about how cool it was.

And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.

A 'no flex zone' is an area where a lot of people can be themselves, live their life, get their money.

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

Be free, and live life fully.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

By the second time I sang by myself in school, I just realized that I was more in control of my environment than I had ever been before.

I was a very young girl and I got into fashion very much by accident, wanting to be independent. What was wonderful was that while I was learning and discovering - learning about the work, discovering myself as a woman - I was allowing other women to feel the same way.

I don't want to feel like people are imposing limits upon you.

Having children, they're not your property. They need to figure out their own views. I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness, but I can't speak on their behalf.

I'm spoiled. All of my adult jobs have left me with complete freedom to come up with what I wanted.

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

I started my career in parent education with the idea that we needed to let our kids go. I believed that parents were suffocating for their children. There was no room for individuality and personhood.

You have to create your own stuff. It's really exciting to create something, sell it, and feel like I'm not just a pawn waiting to be cast.

I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.

In societies where one sees a higher prevalence of 'modern values' - individualism, vitalism and self-expression - there's also higher reported job satisfaction.

I love changing. I hate it when people try to box me in to a relationship or in a work context. Any situation where I feel boxed in freaks me out. And I feel the need to reinvent myself or I'll get bored.

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.