With production opportunities so freakishly limited, why would anyone, especially artists of ambition, write an opera?
"Scotland's campaign for independence must be Gandhian in its ambition," wrote an advocate recently in the Guardian.
"At Benchmark we search for entrepreneurs who want to change the world, and Evan and Bobby certainly have that ambition," wrote Lasky in February.
Markovic stoked her husband's ambition, wrote his speeches and helped plot the maneuvering that in 1987 allowed her husband to take Stambolic's job as party boss.
Mark Bego, author of Madonna: blonde ambition wrote that "Spotlight" was a "typical Madonna 'look-at-me' dance routine, that sounds flat besides the heavy remixes in You Can Dance".
But it's a surprisingly well-composed expression of ambition written by a young man who just happens to be hooched up (he chalked this up to completing his English degree in 1999).
Pfeiffer received positive reviews for her supporting turn; Richard Corliss of Time Magazine wrote, "most of the large cast is fine: Michelle Pfeiffer is better... ...... while Dominick Dunne, in an article for Vanity Fair titled "Blonde Ambition", wrote, "[s]he is on the verge of stardom.
Mr Erdogan's party has "extraordinary neo-Ottoman ambitions", wrote Timothy Garton Ash, a British historian, in a Turkish daily.
At 17, on leaving school, he nurtured vague literary ambitions, wrote a novel ("more Robert Harris than Virginia Woolf"), suffered the inevitable rejection and began writing PR copy.
Only weeks ago, Manchester City had their title ambitions written off by practically every football pundit in the land, as well as their own manager.
