Ambition Quote by Rebecca Miller

“She's a mystery, a cipher, something nearly extinct these days: a person not controlled by ambition or greed or a crass need for attention, but by a desire to experience life completely and to make life a little easier for the people around her” quote by Rebecca Miller — Download Open image

““She's a mystery, a cipher, something nearly extinct these days: a person not controlled by ambition or greed or a crass need for attention, but by a desire to experience life completely and to make life a little easier for the people around her””

Rebecca Miller

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I never had any desire to become a well-known actress.

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In a way, after you're done directing there is a sense of amnesia that washes over you, you can't exactly remember how you did…

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Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

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At best, I think of a director as a magnet. You get all the metal fillings in all the individual actors and crew, and…

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I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do.

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Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.

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Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

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I was always very curious about other people. I would always stare and my mother would say - just please close your mouth!

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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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One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

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I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's…

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A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions

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I'm hungry and ambitious.

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“I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.”

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I was always attracted most to joining City, and I am pleased to be at such a good club with such a big ambition…

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Work towards your goal and dont watch the post size,its either they hate,or like you.there is no room for both sides.

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“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their natural sloth tempting them on the other. They are terrified at the prospect before them, of the toil required to attain exactness. The impetuosity of youth is disgusted at the slow approaches of a regular siege,…

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