A Quote by Vera Lynn

I have never been terribly ambitious.

Vera Lynn

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Ambitious Been Never Terribly

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Vera Lynn
British - Musician
March 20, 1917 - June 18, 2020

I'm not terribly ambitious, not terribly driven.

Jeremy Hardy

I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn't know at all what this great thing would become.

Amelie Nothomb

I was terribly ambitious: I was always thinking why wasn't I in the West End. I really wasted my whole youth.

Sheila Hancock

I am an ambitious person. In the West, being ambitious isn't a bad thing. You work hard and you have a purpose in life. But in North Korea, you can never be individualistic. You can never live for yourself. You have to live for the regime.

Park Yeon-mi

I've never been ambitious.

Mireille Guiliano

I would have been very happy just cruising around and enjoying the unexpected. I've never been ambitious.

Christian Bale

I'm an ambitious self-publicist out of necessity. I've never been one to miss an opportunity because I've never had any illusions about how hard it is to survive as a painter... It's been an extra driving force to be able to prove the sceptics wrong.

Stuart Pearson Wright

As far as I am concerned, ambition is the most dangerous occupation in the world. I have never been ambitious, or if I have, it's only been by default.

Marco Pierre White

My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.

Alvin Ailey

I've never been ambitious about recording

Harry Dean Stanton

I've never been ambitious about recording.

Harry Dean Stanton

I'm not ambitious, I never have been; it's just not in my DNA.

George Stroumboulopoulos

Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the attainment of all that a man can be.