“If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.”
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“I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.”
“Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.”
“We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.”
“My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.”
“Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.”
“People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.”
“Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.”
“Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.”
“Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.”
“It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.”
“Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.”
“It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.”
“Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream.”
“I have those dreams that you can't put into words.”
“I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character.”
“A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.”
“My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.”
“My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.”
“I've had dreams about tricks.”
“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
“My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon.”
“Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.”
“I love watching people's dreams come true.”