Quotes About Ambition

Essentially, we wanted to be in one of Azazel's films, so the notion was we'd simply write an Azazel Jacobs movie ourselves, and then give it to him and be like, 'Right, here's you next film, now direct us. Go.'

Certainly, there is, in our culture, this notion of, you know, you can become anything. You can change.

The notion of 'building a career' had never been heard or dreamed of when I was young.

You know, when I joined the WP, I didn't join with the notion of being sec-gen or coveting any sort of leadership appointment.

I applied to only one drama school - if I didn't get in, I would give up the whole notion. That's how much of a chance I was giving myself.

I've always had this impression that notoriety came when you're trying to get notoriety.

It's not selling out, necessarily, to do something to gain some kind of notoriety that gives you the cache to do be able to go and do something else that you want. There's some dues that you just have to pay in life.

People didn't understand my passion. I dreamt big. I saw myself playing at Notre Dame. I saw myself in a classroom.

I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.

How could God give me a dream, a dream of going to Notre Dame, a dream of becoming somebody, and I'm a dummy, I'm nobody.

For me, it was my dream as a kid to play two sports at the highest level I possibly could. Doing that at Notre Dame just meant I had to sacrifice in ways a normal college student wouldn't have had to sacrifice.

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

I might just write a novel next. I don't know!

Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish.

I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.

I wanted to write a big novel, something epic in scale.

I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.

Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.

I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.

I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin.

I didn't intend to be a novelist. I didn't intend to be anything. I thought I'd be a journalist.

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try to write a novel. To be clear: I did not decide to become a novelist. Honestly, it never crossed my mind that I could actually earn a living as a professional novelist.

I never wanted to be a Cold War novelist.