“You have to be vigorous. That's the only way you are going to get it because everybody has dreams and everybody has goals, but the only people who achieve them are the ones that go after it and don't take no for an answer.”
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“The worst thing you can do to a kid is tell them that their dreams are invalid.”
“As a kid, this is what I wanted my life to be. Not in my wildest dreams did I ever dare to dream that it would be this.”
“I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.”
“'The Cut' is going to give someone the opportunity of a lifetime and help that person achieve his or her dreams.”
“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.”
“Happiness is making your dreams come true.”
“I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.”
“I am a child of Hollywood and dreams. To me, to be on the red carpet is the best place in the world.”
“The old studios that mass-produced dreams are gone with the wind, just like the old downtown theaters that were the temples of the dreams.”
“This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately it's about acting and if you enjoy acting, you will always enjoy acting.”
“In my lifetime, I've discovered a great many incredibly talented individuals. Some have achieved stardom. Simultaneously, I've seen many dreams shattered, egos destroyed and lives changed forever. The end destination may well be fame and fortune, but the road to stardom is littered with broken hearts.”
“Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.”
“Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.”
“If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.”
“My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.”
“In Dreams... well, I was slightly overcompensating with that. I was a bit like a director for hire, so maybe I was putting too much imagery that was familiar to me into it.”
“An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of.”
“Don't give up your dreams.”
“We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.”
“I never had any big dreams about doing something on a huge scale.”
“When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned.”
“When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely.”
“Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives.”