Chuck Todd Quotes

I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.

Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person.

The more successful sons and daughters know when to lean on their parents - and when to go their own way. George W. Bush helped run his father's presidential campaigns in 1988 and 1992. But in his winning campaign for governor of Texas, he never mentioned his father's name in any of his campaign commercials.

I've always wanted to be my own person. Even when I was 'Noah who rode horses,' I wanted to be Noah Cyrus, not anyone else or a family member.

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 love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on.

I was kind of smart enough when I was young, 14 or 15 years old, to realize that if you're ever going to do anything and step out of the shadow of your own dad - not only in hockey, but in life itself - you're going to have to learn you're Brett and not 'Bobby's son.'

I want an identity outside of my work.

I had been the dutiful son and husband for so long, I had forgotten about living for myself.

In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.

In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.

I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that. Something's got to be my own. I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father.

I am my parents' daughter, and I always want to be. But I first wanted to make sure that I was standing on my own two feet.

I'm a different person. I don't want to be titled as Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain's daughter. I want to be thought of as Frances Cobain.

Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, / He travels the fastest who travels alone.

David Cassidy is my father, yes... But for me, it was always really important with acting to stay in class, study it, and earn it on my own. My dad didn't help me.

Everyone is different, and each has to create his or her own path, irrespective of who their parents are.

It's cool to step away for a second and be my own person other than just somebody in a known family.

You can't live in someone else's shoes; you've got to branch out and fill your own shoes.

Experiencing difficult things, even as a very young kid, means you grow up quickly. I think that enables everyone to choose their own path and not just accept the one others have taken before you, and I went my own way.

I do keep my eyes and ears open but I don't spend a lot of time looking at what other people are doing to see how I can fit in.

Moana doesn't have a love interest because this movie is about a journey - a physical one across hundreds and hundreds of miles of ocean, but also an emotional one of Moana finding herself. She doesn't need a man or love interest to find herself.

It's difficult to always have to be contextualized within the careers of your parents, and it's difficult not to feel like you can stand alone, but hopefully I'll earn the ability to stand alone over time.

I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others. I even tell my daughters not to look at me as a model.

You cannot learn what you are made of if you rely on anyone or anything else to help you.