Peter Morgan Quotes
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I'm very comfortable being naked. It's one of my favorite things to do.
Nadine Velazquez -
I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.
Kate Christensen -
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Baruch Spinoza -
I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.
Octavia E. Butler -
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
Walter Savage Landor -
If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
Beau Willimon
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
Sallust -
I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.
Dan Quayle -
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
Eden Phillpotts -
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.
Fergus Henderson -
Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.
Vera Farmiga -
It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.
Majandra Delfino
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Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction.
J. G. Ballard -
Hackney at certain epochs has given itself suburban airs and graces, before being slapped down and consigned once more to the dump bin of aborted ambition.
Iain Sinclair -
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
'Keeper' is about fathers, ultimately. and also conservation, commitment and ambition.
Mal Peet -
Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.
Daley Thompson -
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Samuel Johnson
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It's been an ambition of mine, before I even wanted to act, to be involved in animation.
Taron Egerton -
Yes, I love the glamour industry. I love the work that I've done so far. But it's not as if I have this biting ambition to be at the top.
Malaika Arora Khan -
I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be married - you'll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive.
Bill Murray -
Even the most impassioned devotee of the ghost story would admit that the taste for it is slightly abnormal, a survival, perhaps, from adolescence, a disease of deficiency suffered by those whose lives and imaginations do not react satisfactorily to normal experience and require an extra thrill
Leslie Poles Hartley -
I would never think of myself as a role model.
Lynsey Addario -
Ambition interests me because it's such a surefire indicator of damage.
Peter Morgan