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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My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.
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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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Talent is crucial. It needs to be driven by motivation, but blind ambition isn't the key.
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People say we are survivors but I don't see us as survivors of anything. We are still here, there's nothing that's come and tried to dislodge us. We just go about our business.
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I consider a perfect hot dog on the street to be as valid a food experience as dinner at Blue Hill at Stone Barns.
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The people who come to watch us play, who love the team and regard it as part of their lives, would never appreciate Liverpool having a huge balance in the bank. They want every asset we possess to be wearing a red shirt.
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I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to.
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My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize.
