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Dream Quotes


"I have a lot of variety within me, and the dream role, I think, is actually a compilation of parts that express different aspects of my persona and personal interests."


"What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?... Or does it explode?"


"Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it."


"I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on."


"We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams come true."


"Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true."


"My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily."


"It was in New York, and I've always wanted to film in New York. And the writer was a teenage friend of mine. We did youth theatre together when we were 16 and always had a dream of making a film together. And ten years later, we've done it. So it's great."


"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?"


"You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning."


"That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station."


"I met someone the other night who's 28 years old, and he hasn't worked a day since he left college because he's pursuing a dream he'll never, ever realize: He thinks he's a great singer. Actually, he's crap."


"If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us."


"A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement."


"Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?"


"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."


"As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate."


"Then, much later, my next dream was to become an astronaut, and I was fortunate to realize that dream, also."


"Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed."


"Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way."


"It was relatively easy to write 'The Cave of Lost Souls', though, because it came to me one night in a dream. I remember waking up and having this idea for a complete story - from start to finish - in my head, so I jotted it down, then later began writing the thing."


"My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession."


"When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach."
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