David Pryce-Jones Quotes
Modern novels have become part of the do-it-yourself business, and they come in a very small number of standard kits. (...) In this wilderness cries the voice of Patrick White, Australian extraordinary, who has quite other, more austere and indeed prophetic ambitions. (...) (H)is failures are certainly the equivalent, and perhaps the measure, of other men's success.
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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.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
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Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile - they never do.
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So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, 'What was it that all of them had in common?' They had too much time on their hands. Even though they were pretty, they lacked something. A woman could be less attractive but with ambition and drive, that's the most beautiful thing.
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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There's an appreciation of the whole picture of life as opposed to just ambition and circumstance and all the stuff that happens in this business. You find yourself lucky enough to be working with somebody really talented who you know and who you trust.
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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.
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'Keeper' is about fathers, ultimately. and also conservation, commitment and ambition.
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Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.
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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
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It's been an ambition of mine, before I even wanted to act, to be involved in animation.
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The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
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My dream is to make Katihar a model district. I have no personal ambition.
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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
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Timothy's great value was that he was always willing to go anywhere; and in his hands a message was as safe as if Paul had delivered it himself. Others might be consumed with selfish ambition; but Timothy's one desire was to serve Paul and Jesus Christ. He is the patron saint of all those who are quite content with the second place, so long as they can serve.
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Our actions make the fragrance of our lives...Would you smell of plums? Or Vinegar?
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I feel luck plays a vey crucial role in determining the success of the book. Marketing a book is also very important. You need to try all tricks in the trade.
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We've got a lot of work to do economically in this country to bring about a more just and fair economy.
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Elvis was the reason I picked up the guitar.
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Modern novels have become part of the do-it-yourself business, and they come in a very small number of standard kits. (...) In this wilderness cries the voice of Patrick White, Australian extraordinary, who has quite other, more austere and indeed prophetic ambitions. (...) (H)is failures are certainly the equivalent, and perhaps the measure, of other men's success.
