Alexandra Roach Quotes
My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
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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.
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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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In Europe you can be Sophia, you can be these older women who are considered very sexy.
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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.
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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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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
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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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Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.
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Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.
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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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It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.
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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.
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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.
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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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When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.
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If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful.
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Even the village rain-maker no longer claimed to be able to intervene. He could not stop the rain now, just as he would not attempt to start it in the heart of the dry season, without serious danger to his own health.
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I am very domesticated. I find I really enjoy it.
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When you go through a hard period, When everything seems to oppose you, ... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute, NEVER GIVE UP! Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!
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My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize.
