Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

I wasn't sheltered or spoiled. All the money I made, I made myself.

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

There have been a lot of challenges, but I'm still standing on my own, and it's quite an achievement knowing that I own my own business and created my own success through hard work and vision.

Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

The big things I've had are things I bought myself.

I'm in the process of trying to find something that I could do on my own.

To me, success was not having to have a boss and not having a day job. I've been living my own version of success since the early '90s when I first got signed. I haven't had a job since then.

I just know that it's smart for my career to carve my own path and do my own thing.

What would life be like if everybody insisted you must have actually built such-and-such a thing by yourself? I'd be an old man and have nothing to show for the aging.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

I didn't really enjoy reading until I married my wife and we began reading the Bible out loud to each other every day. I enjoy reading now, and there is a whole world of books out there to explore.

I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.

I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself.

Freedom requires us to view people as wanting the opportunity to earn their success.

I'm Southern, but I need to be out making my own money, and impacting the world outside of my house.

When you go independent, if you fail, you're totally responsible for it. If you succeed, you're totally responsible for it. You are responsibly for who you are... and what you do and what you make.

Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.

To read the Bible is of itself a laudable occupation and can scarcely fail of being a useful employment of time; but the habit of reflecting upon what you have read is equally essential as than of reading itself, to give it all the efficacy of which it is susceptible.

To make your own family is just the most empowering thing ever. It's the greatest thing you can ever pull off.

I didn't want to work with my father. I wanted to see if I could develop my own career.

Being in this business and surviving day-to-day can be a constant struggle. It's about learning how to be your own super hero, put on your own cape, and be a well-rounded individual.

Being self-made means doing things your own way - and doing it without any handouts.