Restrictive Environment Quotes

The most closed, control freak, administration I have ever covered.

When I'm making an American film, it's more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, 'What are you doing!? Tell me first!' There are so many restrictions.

There's a funny thing about fame. The truth is you run as fast as you can towards it because it's everything you want. Not just the fame but what it represents, meaning work, meaning opportunity. And then you get there, and it's shocking how immediately you become enveloped in this world that is incredibly restricting.

I loathed every day and regret every day I spent in school. I like to be taught to read and write and add and then be left alone.

Some people are very dictatorial and it's not a good feeling, and it kind of inhibits you, because you feel like you have more to offer than what they're trying to squeeze you into, some kind of box or something like that.

For digital natives, public schools are jails

Yes, I come from a protective family. I wasn't even allowed to sleep over at a friend's place as a child.

Are traditional schools very much like mini-prisons? Do they stifle imagination, cramp the child physically and mentally, and run on various forms of overt or covert terrorism? Of course, the answer is an unambiguous YES.

Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.

A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.

I didn't have boyfriends until my late teens. I was at a girls' boarding school, and my stepfather disapproved of me going out with anybody. I never really came across any boys. When I did, one of them asked me out, and I was petrified. I felt like a fish out of water, and it was excruciating.

I had very strict parents, I could never go outside or go to parties.

My parents divorced when I was 10, but when my father was there, he was trying to create almost like a little prison for me.

Because it is not possible on the other side to build up an independent peace movement, we have more responsibility to do this on our side. To be active for our friends on the other side who are prevented from being active in the same way.

I feel a lot of life in me and a lot of creative energy, and I think it's better suited somewhere it can run free.

The atmosphere of the home is prolonged in the school, where the students soon discover thatin order to achieve some satisfaction they must adapt to the precepts which have ben set from above. One of these precepts is not to think.

Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic - those are sort of three layers of repression.

Especially in Britain, people want to limit you.

People aren't allowed to be themselves in snooker.

The studio is spending great amounts of money, and they want some insurance they will get money back. They go for the middle of the road, broad in appeal. It's restrictive. It's a constant struggle, but if you give in, you're just making cottage cheese, and that's the end of it.

No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.

I hated high school. It was a prison.

It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.

I wanted to find a way of life that allowed me great freedom, not to be stuck. I went to a very traditional school, which prepared people for the army or for banking or for industry, and I wanted to be outside of that.

My dad's view about coaching was that you have to express yourself. When I was young at academies, I wasn't allowed to do that.