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I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.
– Octavia Spencer
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I was a great dreamer of day dreams.
– Abraham Cahan
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I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.
– Edwidge Danticat
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I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven't even dreamed up.
– Fantasia Barrino
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I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
– Joseph Heller
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I want to help children in Serbia and around the world so they can realize their dreams.
– Novak Djokovic
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I want to find someone who's really into something like I'm really into something, so that I can support them and we can both cheer each other on. I've got a lot of dreams I want to achieve, and I hope someone can cheer me on as I'll cheer them on in their dreams.
– Hunter Hayes
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I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.
– Ayumi Hamasaki
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I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and inspire.
– David Copperfield
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I think when you're in a relationship where you really care for the other person, when they achieve their dreams it's better than when you do yourself.
– Nicole Kidman
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I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.
– LL Cool J
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I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.
– Tori Amos
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I think there must be a place inside of us where dreams go and wait their turn.
– Sue Monk Kidd
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I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.
– Augusten Burroughs
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I think L.A.'s terrific. You fly an hour and a half and you're in the mountains in three feet of powder. I also think it's a much better city if you're working as an actor. If you're not working and you don't see your dreams coming true, there can be a lot of heartache.
– Scott Patterson
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I think I am done with Wikipedia for the time being. But I have a secret hope. Someone recently proposed a Wikimorgue - a bin of broken dreams where all rejects could still be read, as long as they weren't libelous or otherwise illegal.
– Nicholson Baker
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I think everyone dreams of that nice romantic wedding.
– Lance Bass
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I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.
– Patrick Dempsey
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
– Manuel Puig
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I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn't it? That's the place where your dreams will come true. It's an act of faith now they think that's going to sort things out.
– Jarvis Cocker
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I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.
– Robyn Hitchcock
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I tell people, 'It's just like a cliche, but it's true: In Hollywood, dreams can come true.'
– Michael Clarke Duncan
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I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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I still marvel at how God turns dreams into reality.
– Martha Reeves
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I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
– Nancy Pelosi
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I save my dreams and hopes for my kids. When I'm making a wish under a bridge or tunnel, it's always for them.
– Alison Sweeney
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I really want to live in New York. That's the city of my dreams.
– Joel Kinnaman
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I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
– Bill Gates
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I put a lot of faith in dreams. I know that big movie roles and opportunities are going to happen.
– Krista Allen
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I published in 1978 a report on dreams in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. It was the first study of its kind to demonstrate that it is possible for people to make constructive use of their dreams to improve their lives.
– Henry Reed
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I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
– Khalil Gibran
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I part of this great nation because my grandfather was born here, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He took a horse, back in 1895, and ride it all the way down to Guanajuato, looking for his American dream. No penny in his pocket, only dreams in his head. And he was an immigrant coming from the States into Mexico. And he found his American dream in Mexico.
– Vicente Fox
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I only remember the end of my dreams, like waking up at a steering wheel, or falling.
– Ben Barnes
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I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
– Frida Kahlo
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I never had any big dreams about doing something on a huge scale.
– Alison Krauss
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I never felt I would be part of the international scene for 50 caps in my wildest dreams.
– Kenny Cunningham
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I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
– H. P. Lovecraft
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I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material.
– Kathy Acker
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I mean, we've all had those dreams where, you know, we try to cry out and our voice won't come.
– Tom Hooper
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I mean, every child at one stage dreams of being a prince or a princess.
– Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
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I married the man of my dreams in 1998.
– Cindy Margolis
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I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.
– Florence Griffith Joyner
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I love watching people's dreams come true.
– Jessica Simpson
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I love to work with the younger kids who are trying to live out their dreams, if in fact that's what they plan on doing after college to take the next step. A very select few have that opportunity so when you do have the opportunity you know, those guys take advantage of it.
– Roger Clemens
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I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.
– Irvin Kershner
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I look up to people who succeed in accomplishing their dreams.
– Joanna Noelle Levesque
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
– Thomas Jefferson
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I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!
– Wallace Shawn
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I know it sounds corny, but when you follow your dreams, it happens. And if it's music, take it seriously.
– Enrique Iglesias
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
– Lana Del Rey
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I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.
– J. K. Rowling
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I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.
– Natalie du Toit
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I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.
– Dolly Parton
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I have those dreams that you can't put into words.
– Harry Connick, Jr.
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I have shared my whole life. My private and my show business life. It helps me actually to feel my songs and to go on with my dreams.
– Celine Dion
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I have my own production company called Urban Dreams.
– Chaske Spencer
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I have lived with my husband more than I have with my parents... I live beside him, and know his worries, his hopes, and his dreams for his nation. We believe that things happen by design, not in an arbitrary way. And we believe it is our duty to make things happen.
– Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned
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I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.
– Jonas Salk
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I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.
– Christopher Nolan
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I have actual dreams of Bruce Springsteen calling me up on stage to wear a bandanna and play rhythm guitar next to Little Steven.
– Tom Perrotta
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I have absurdly vivid dreams.
– Erin Morgenstern
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I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations.
– Karlie Kloss
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I had some wonderful dreaming meetings. I can't tell you specifically what they've been in the recent months. In the past they've been verbal kinds of messages that he needed to give me. Now they're more dreams of his presence.
– Judy Collins
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I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.
– Greta Gerwig
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I had dreams of catching the ball for the final out in the World Series and being mobbed by my teammates. Well, I guess all my dreams didn't come true.
– Robin Yount
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I grew up with not a lot of money and I definitely shopped at Goodwill. But even in my most unfortunate state, I was really blessed compared to a lot of the rest of the world. I had a really great chance to follow my dreams and have them actually come true.
– AnnaLynne McCord
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I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?
– Alice Hoffman
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I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.
– Jane Pauley
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I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
– Gary Ross
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I don't remember my dreams. I'm one of those weird people. I know there are tricks and things you can do, but I never remember my dreams.
– Jayma Mays
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I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.
– Jean Paul Gaultier
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I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs.
– Judy Collins
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I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.
– Alanis Morissette
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I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. They had the same talent, the same brains, the same dreams as the folks we sat with at Stanford and Harvard. I realized the difference wasn't one of intelligence or drive. The difference was opportunity.
– Julian Castro
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I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.
– Ferdinand Porsche
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I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.
– Roy Orbison
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I can't sing but I can understand wanting to keep a balance, trying to pursue dreams, while creating a stable environment for my children.
– Gabrielle Reece
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I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.
– Samantha Barks
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I can think of some things that would be fun, but I'm living my dreams.
– Mike Farrell
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I can have my goals, and I can have my dreams. My goal is to make the finals and improve my position. I want to run all decent races. I don't want to look back and say I ran a terrible race.
– Oscar Pistorius
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I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed.
– David Talbot
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I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John F. Kennedy was murdered, cutting short a presidency that was growing ever more promising. Dreams died that day in Dallas it is easy to imagine the 1960s turning out rather differently had President Kennedy lived.
– Jon Meacham
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I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative.
– Miguel Jontel Pimentel
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I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.
– Ivor Novello
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I appreciate everything that has been done for me. After a difficult start, I've just followed my dreams.
– Victor Ortiz
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I am very lucky because I am realizing my childhood dreams, and after presenting my shows it's like a party.
– Jean Paul Gaultier
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I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.
– Miley Cyrus
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I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.
– Allen Tate
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I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.
– Arsenio Hall
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I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
– Bob Dylan
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I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.
– Lady Gaga
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I am a child of Hollywood and dreams. To me, to be on the red carpet is the best place in the world.
– Steven Cojocaru
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I always wanted to be a Californian. In my wildest dreams, I always liked California - it's the place where oranges grows on trees! Fruit just falls off the trees.
– Eric Burdon
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I always knew that we were going to be successful and accomplish and succeed at our dreams. There was never a doubt in my mind. When we were recording 'Appetite For Destruction,' we all knew.
– Steven Adler
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I adore this adventure, I adore working with youth. For me it's a daily challenge, working to help these youths realize their dreams.
– Patrick Roy
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I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company.
– Graeme Murphy
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Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.
– Oscar Niemeyer
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How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
– Bram Stoker
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Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.
– Cassandra Peterson
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Hopefully kids will look at me and see that your dreams can come true.
– Roy Keane
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