"My one remaining professional ambition is to read……" — Samuel West
"My one remaining professional ambition is to read the shipping forecast. I live in hope."
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25 Quotes by Samuel West
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[P]erfect freedom consists in obeying the dictates of right reason, and submitting to natural law. When a man goes beyond…
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Im lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer theres ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always…
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We'll be back. I promise you that.
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At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield - a city I've…
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I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime…
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It is our duty to endeavor always to promote the general good; to do to all as we would be…
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It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an…
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Most actors are socialists, aren't they?
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Where licentiousness begins, liberty ends.
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I mean I think children love the idea that there are different viewpoints and different words for things and different…
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If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch…
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Stamps from Afghanistan are hilarious. You can tell when the revolutions are because suddenly they stop having pictures of the…
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Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as…
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We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you…
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All…
— Saint Augustine
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by…
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A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
— Marcus Aurelius
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All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was…
— Paul Auster
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Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of…
— Sai Baba
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for…
— Charles Babbage
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A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions.…
— Liberty Hyde Bailey
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and…
— Pearl Bailey
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The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now…
— Russell Baker
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The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
— James A. Baldwin
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