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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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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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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There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.
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On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!
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Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.
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The earth's warmth under me, as I stretch out at night, is astonishing. It is like the warmth of another body that has absorbed the sun all day and now gives out again its store of heat. It is softer, darker than I could ever have believed, and when I take a handful of it and smell its extraordinary odors, I know suddenly what it is I am composed of, as if the energy that is in this fistful of black soil had suddenly opened, between my body and it, as between it and the green stalks, some corridor along which our common being flowed.
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Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
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I've been in more than 20 movies. You just do the best you can and try to make a living.
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Trust me, all this fuss over freedoms would fade in a mushroom-cloud moment if there were another attack on our soil.
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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.
