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A first novel should be brash and ambitious, and announce the arrival of a new talent.

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• To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Age
  • Free
  • Me

• I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Talent
  • Ambitious
  • Monstrosity

• 'Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Seems
  • Ambitious
  • Tone

• I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Women
  • Mind
  • Passionate

• If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before – then I think we must suspect that his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Improvement

• The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Freedom
  • Democracy
  • Ambitious

• You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Ambitious
  • Bounds
  • Reasonable

• Some handsome and ambitious men believe they are above all morality, and a woman's virtue becomes a mere challenge to them.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Challenges

• The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

  

  William Penn
  • Men
  • Power
  • inspirational

• I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of my self, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant-Jesus-s hould be able to stretch His hands across the centuries and control the destinies of men and nations.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Dreams
  • Ambitious
  • Caesar

• Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon with splinters: here I clip The anvil of my sword, and do contest As hotly and as nobly with thy love As ever in ambitious strength I did Contend against thy valour. Know thou first, I loved the maid I married; never man Sigh'd truer breath; but that I see thee here, Thou noble thing! more dances my rapt heart Than when I first my wedded mistress saw Bestride my threshold.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Married

• No man's pie is freed From his ambitious finger.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Fingers
  • Ambitious

• You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Achieve
  • Misery
  • Ambitious

• Maybe it's a little ambitious of me to presume that no matter how big the film is, that I can always go down to the shop to buy a pint of milk.

  

  Tom Hardy
  • Film
  • Ambitious
  • Milk

• I've never been particularly ambitious. I'm driven by the moment.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Moment
  • Ambitious

• I was always ambitious. I always wanted to be more than I was....I always wanted to be a movie actor.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Ambitious
  • Movie actor

• If you start from a belief that the most knowledgeable person on earth does not have even one percent of the total knowledge on earth, that shoots down social engineering, economic central planning, judicial activism, and innumerable other ambitious notions favored by the political left.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Political
  • Earth
  • Belief

• Be ambitious about things that last.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Things
  • Ambitious

• The history of Hawaii may be seen as a story of arrivals.

  

  Susanna Moore
  • History
  • Hawaii
  • Arrivals

• I am an ambitious person and always seek for the best. I always wanted to stand out from the crowd and create my own brand. That was for me the normal process for my business to develop.

  

  Zuhair Murad
  • Business
  • Develop
  • Brand

• You know that thing people say, 'poetry is the hardest, stories are the second hardest, novels are the easiest?' I'm here to tell you that novels are the hardest. Writing a novel is unbelievably difficult. It's nightmarish.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Writing
  • Stories
  • Novels

• A first novel should be brash and ambitious, and announce the arrival of a new talent.

  

  Stuart Woods
  • Ambitious
  • Arrivals
  • Brash