Stephen Ambrose Quotes

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.

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• I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Read
  • Forgotten
  • Plato

• I have to be seen to be believed.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Believed
  • Seen

• People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Fashion
  • End

• I'm extremely determined and ambitious.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Determined
  • Ambitious

• In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration with the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, which is 15 elementary schools in the Twin Cities.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Children
  • Theatre
  • Collaboration

• The only reason I would write a break-up song is because my own problem of allowing myself to relate to people.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • People
  • Up
  • Song

• A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Career

• I said to Ruth Rendell, 'When you've written as many books as you have, it's easier.' She said, 'No dear, it gets harder'.

  

  Val McDermid
  • She
  • You
  • Said

• I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Life
  • Live
  • My Life

• I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Green

• I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Music
  • Different
  • Film

• I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Media

• I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Home
  • Alone
  • Leaving

• I didn't wake up and decide to become an activist. But you couldn't help notice the inequities, the injustices. It was all around you.

  

  Yuri Kochiyama
  • Up
  • Help
  • You

• Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Real
  • True
  • Action

• I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • Up
  • Law
  • Rules

• I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Political
  • Alone
  • Always

• Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Life
  • Music
  • Wish

• President Obama has pledged $3 billion to aid poor nations. All of that $3 billion is going to the United States.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Nations
  • President Obama
  • Aid

• The castle of Cair Paravel on its little hill towered up above them; before them were the sands, with rocks and little pools of salt water, and seaweed, and the smell of the sea and long miles of bluish-green waves breaking for ever and ever on the beach. And oh, the cry of the seagulls! Have you ever heard it? Can you remember?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Long
  • Remember

• Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself.

  

  Saadi
  • Secret
  • Failing
  • Scandal

• I'm damn successful but I got here by not taking crap. I still don't take crap, so if anybody needs a champion, let it be me.

  

  Paul Stanley Kiss
  • Successful
  • Champion
  • Crap

• I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart. I'm your worrier, remember?" "I'll never forget. I promise. I'm your High Priestess and you've pledged yourself to me. That means you have my heart, too." "Then both of us better stay safe. A heart's a hard thing to live without. I should know. I've tried it.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Time
  • Live
  • Heart

• The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.

  

  Stephen Ambrose
  • Successful
  • Secret
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