Anjelica Huston Quotes
My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.
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I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.
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You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.
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I want variety. I certainly don't want any kind of hype if I can avoid it. I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety, I suppose, because - like a lot of people - I'm easily bored.
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There is a big divergence between views on a variety of policy issues from fiscal stimulus to financial regulation. It's my hope and my ambition for the economics profession that as we advance our knowledge, that those discussions will narrow in their focus, and that it will help to have more prudent policy-making down the road.
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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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You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.
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I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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I'm never bored.
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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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You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.
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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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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.
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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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If there were teenagers who had a video camera and saw what I did on a daily basis, they'd be bored out of their mind.
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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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Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.
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Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough - whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still have the same genes they had 10,000 years ago. Our bodies are designed to have a certain amount of physical stress and violence in them. We're designed to run from jaguars and fight to defend our territory.
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The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.
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Seems to me God made a big mistake when He failed to put handles on watermelons.
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My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.
