There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone. – Henry David Thoreau

It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called Rule Of The Bone. I didnt do a very good job. I didnt really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book. – Paul Thomas Anderson

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world. – Orison Swett Marden