“I was pretty ambitious as a child to want to be a star with the talent I had, but I want to finish what I started and bring the fans along with me.” WantChildrenStarsFansTalentAmbitious Author:John Otway
“Friendship is far more delicate than love. Quarrels and fretful complaints are attractive in the last, offensive in the first. And the very things which heap fewel on the fire of ardent passion, choke and extinguish sober and true regard. On the other hand, time, which is sure to destroy that love of which half certainly depends on desire, is as sure to increase a friendship founded on talents, warm with esteem, and ambitious of success for the object of it.” FirstsHandsLastsDesirePassionHalfFireTalentObjectsDependsIncreaseRegardWarmEsteemAttractiveDelicateAmbitiousOffensiveComplaintsSoberQuarrelsChokeArdent Book:The Intimate Letters of Piozzi and Pennington Source: The Intimate Letters of Piozzi and Pennington
“[Eugene] O'Neill made a living, certainly, at least. But each of these forms have sort of died the death in turn, and it's a simple fact of that universe that talent then migrates away from these forms, and then the amateurs get in, like lunatics in the ruins, sort of pretending to be artists. If you're ambitious enough to want to be a writer to begin with, you want to be a writer in some circumstances where there are rewards, where there's notice, where you don't have to be a teacher, and where you're frankly not nuts for wasting your time.” IfsWantMadeEnoughFactsFormArtistTurnsUniverseSimpleTeacherTalentCircumstancesDiedRewardsRuinsPretendingNutsAmbitiousWasting Your TimeMigrateEugene O Neill Author:William Monahan
“Hemingway is a baby when he turns up in Paris, but he's an ambitious baby. And he has the talent. And he's there to stage his breakthrough. So many of the expats who were there at that time were there to do precisely that. It was an ambition-fueled town.” TurnsStageTalentBabyAmbitionTownsParisAmbitiousBreakthroughExpats Author:Lesley M. M. Blume