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A lot of people, I think, harbor some kind of ambition to write a novel - they say, 'One day I'm going to write a novel,' and they maybe find the first three pages quite easy, and then they hit a kind of brick wall, and they think that that brick wall means that they're not a writer.

~Alex Garland

Topics: Ambition Brick Day Easy Find First Going Harbor Hit Kind Lot Maybe Means Novel One Day Pages People Quite Say Some Then They Say Think Three Wall Write Writer I Think

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Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.

~Alex Kapranos

Topics: Ambition Bands Good Good Thing Like Me Pretty Pretty Good Seems Some Thing

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I would like to win the Ballon d'Or for women. But every top professional should have that ambition.

~Alex Morgan

Topics: Ambition Every Like Professional Should Top Win Women Would

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Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

~Alexander Hamilton

Topics: Always Ambition Cannot Count Extinguish Hope However Left Let Us May Moderate Moderation Option Others Our Peace Us War We Cannot Will

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You do not have to ladle on the impasto to make a point about human frailty or ambitions.

~Alexander Mccall Smith

Topics: About Ambition Frailty Human Make Point You

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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

~Alexander Pope

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To be in the music industry, to be in any kind of entertainment industry, you really, really have to be passionate about it and love it and persevere, because if that passion isn't there, it's easy to give up. If you really want it, the ambition is there, it'll come. It's definitely harder work than some people think.

~Alexandra Chando

Topics: About Ambition Any Because Come Definitely Easy Entertainment Entertainment Industry Give Harder Industry Kind Love Music Music Industry Passion Passionate People Persevere Really Some Some People Than Think Up Want Work You

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In the West, it was believed that attitude and ambition saved you. In Africa, we had learned that no one was immune to capricious tragedy.

~Alexandra Fuller

Topics: Africa Ambition Attitude Believed Had Immune Learned Saved Tragedy West You

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My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize.

~Alexandra Roach

Topics: Actress Ambition Become Chameleon Like Recognize Those You

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Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

~Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: Aim Alone Ambition Best Employed Enjoyed Fame Labour Mankind Most Obtained Share Source Then True Virtue Wisdom You

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