Quotes About Aspiration

When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chance to share in that dream.

But I certainly know a lot of people that existed at that level and are always kind of pining for more, always thinking that the next big break, the next opportunity, the big role are just around the corner of the next audition.

Before, when going to youth camps, the line for QBs would be around the corner. Now, kids want to be either QBs or WRs. Being a WR is popular, it's cool.

Nobody dreams of being on the bench or sitting in the corner.

I want to keep - this seems so corny - I want to keep growing as an artist.

I was working a corporate job, but I really wanted to do music.

I never had a job. I never saw myself working for corporate business.

I wanted to work in corporate restaurants.

Ive actually developed a well of confidence. But would I apply for the 'Financial Times' economics correspondent? No, I would feel I wasnt up there.

What costs the world to you as a working kid fresh out of college costs nothing to you as a successful musician.

Dreaming costs nothing, no?

Big things always interest me, but the big things don't work because they're too big. You have to find characters in which to couch all those things.

I was well brought up, my parents are still together. I lived in a council estate, but I don't anymore; I saw my parents buy a nice house and move me to a nice area.

It doesn't seem very long ago I was a girl from a council estate with nothing but dreams.

I grew up on a poor council estate so I know what it feels like not to have the money to dress as you'd like.

I went to my school careers counselors and said I wanted to be an actor, and they didn't know what to do. They showed me catalogues with pretty campuses and said, 'Oh, look, there's a theater building. Why don't you go there?'

I actually started as a director, but then I saw Mark Ruffalo in 'You Can Count on Me,' and I thought to myself, 'I want to do that.'

My dream when I was younger was always to be a Benfica player. So when I arrived on the first team to work with a coach that didn't count on me, who put me as a left back, of course I was a bit sad.

I expect to make a career out of country music.

I've always wanted to sing country music.

If I wasn't singing country music for a living, I was actually going to school to be a doctor.

There wasn't really a song or artist that made me want to be a singer, I think I was always a fan of country music.

I'm a huge country music fan, and there are so many girls that I look up to, especially Carrie Underwood, which everyone knows because I've shouted it out for a while now.

I don't remember ever not wanting to be a country singer. Even as a little kid, that was my dream.