A Quote by Brenda Blethyn
Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition.
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Contentment is wanting what you have. Ambition is wanting what another has. Progress comes from wanting what nobody has.
Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.
The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.
[My work is] maybe about me maybe not wanting to be me and wanting to be all these other characters. Or at least try them on.
I suppose you retire from trying. If you retire from trying, you think, "Maybe love will just come my way if I don't want it anymore."
Once I started to retire, I was telling all of the girls in my generation, 'Wow I feel like an outsider in this locker room because this whole new generation of women has stepped in,' and that was one of the signs where I said maybe it's time to retire.
Maybe I'm sad about wanting you. I'm not too comfortable with wanting someone.
To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.
People say, 'Oh, so you should retire.' Yeah, you want me to retire so you won't get knocked out. I won't retire.
The philosophy I shared... was one of ambition - ambition to succeed, ambition to grow, ambition to move forward - backed up by hard work.
Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead!
I have an ambition to live 300 years. I will not live 300 years. Maybe I will live one year more. But I have the ambition. Why you will not have ambition? Why? Have the greatest ambition possible. You want to be immortal? Fight to be immortal. Do it. You want to make the most fantastic art or movie? Try. If you fail, is not important. We need to try.
If I know I'm at genetically high risk of Alzheimer's, maybe I don't plan to retire at 80, and maybe I'm more proactive about where I'm going to live and who's going to take care of me.
Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.
And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always the goal - to be a novelist, not a screenwriter. And I think, again, if I didn't have the novels, maybe I'd be much more frustrated by not having directed yet.
Retirement is a very subjective thing. There are guys I know who retire and they're very happy and they never miss work at all. I can't see myself retiring and fondling a dog every day. I like to get up and work and go out. I have too much energy or too much nervous anxiety or something. So I don't see myself retiring. Maybe I will suddenly get a stroke or a heart attack and I will be forced to retire, but if my health holds out I don't expect to retire.
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