"Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions."

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Source : Storm Jameson (2011). “Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson”, p.398, A&C Black

Storm Jameson

#Ambition Quotes #Writing Quotes #Blazing Quotes

“Iâ€™m always looking to top the last match, Iâ€™m always looking to entertain the fans and steal the show. Before I always thought that it was a case of opportunities, but Iâ€™m learning that itâ€™s all in my control and I just want to keep on doing what Iâ€™m doing by giving my best. Iâ€™ve got a couple more magical matches left in me and hopefully at some stage, I guess the biggest honour would be going into the TNA Hall of Fame.”
“Every now and then I have to teach directing. The thing about the theatre is that the most important thing you can do as a director is to make sure that everybody is in the same world - you have to create the world and make sure everyone buys into it.”

Source : "Nothing is the hardest thing to do". Interview with Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2003.
“I have to change to stay the same.”

Source : Barbara Hess, Willem De Kooning (2004). “Willem de Kooning, 1904-1997: Content as a Glimpse”, p.79, Taschen
“Why should I complain about making $7,000 a week playing a maid? If I didn't, I'd be making $7 a week being one.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Free speech not only lives, it rocks!”
“Itâ€™s scary to realize that the only thing holding our friends to us isnâ€™t our performance, or our lovability, or their guilt, or their obligation. The only thing that will keep them calling, spending time with us, and putting up with us is love. And thatâ€™s the one thing we canâ€™t control.”
“It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.”
“There are five main purposes of central bank cooperation"..."the provision of international credits and joint efforts to influence asset prices (especially gold and foreign exchange) in circumstances where this might be thought useful.”

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