Independence : (1626) " I have no desire to be a cat, which walks so lightly that it never creates a disturbance. " - Andrew Taylor Still " In New York, everybody is their own celebrity, so they’re not so interested in other people. " - Jesse Eisenberg " If somebody else wanted to do a song for McDonald’s, that’s up to them. I wouldn’t do something like that, but whatever. " - Kurt Vile " Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read. " - Gore Vidal " Because I was an only child, I don’t like many people around, and that’s why I don’t have any servants. " - Charles Nelson Reilly " There are a million misconceptions about me but the greatest is probably that people think I’m the king of disco. I love disco but it is only one part of me. " - Leo Sayer " I don’t tend to go into any job thinking about the audience reaction. " - Zawe Ashton " I grew up in Alaska, okay? My dad graduated high school and went straight to the mountains. He had $300 and staked a claim. He didn’t even have enough to put a title on the land: just had the records that he bought before he moved. " - John Gourley " When you start performing, you realize that you have to separate yourself from the pack. So I would never wear bell-bottoms, which everybody else was wearing. I had short hair – and to see a 21-year-old guy walk onstage without longish hair was, in itself, weird. Every entertainer needs a shtick. " - Loudon Wainwright III " I don’t have a sugar daddy, I’ve never had a sugar daddy. " - Shangela