Quotes About Aspiration

I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I want to be able to recall experiences that have endured for their pleasure and range and intensity.

As long as I can recall I've always wanted to make cartoons.

Can't remember a time when I didn't want to be an actor... though it felt like something I couldn't do until I grew up. I mean, I knew kids could be actors - I recall seeing them on my dad's shoots and getting jealous.

You only think about things when you see people doing it. Most girls know now they can be lawyers. They know that they can work in an emergency room - they've seen 'ER.' But I don't recall that anyone has seen scientists on a large scale, except for a few paleontologists in 'Jurassic Park.'

I grew up in Spokane, Washington, and I can't recall ever not wanting to be an astronaut.

I wanted to go out there and do what no one's ever done - and that's recapture some kind of glory.

Young fighters dream of the future. Old fighters seek to recapture the past.

Receipts' was meaning, I'm going in. I'm gonna invest in everything that I want, and that is more to myself, and my business, to make it be exactly what I want.

No child's dream should be limited by the quality, or lack thereof, of the education they receive.

When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.

I never dreamed, when I received a small table for a Christmas present from my parents, I would have the career that I did or achieve so much.

When I used to listen to the poets in other languages and the kind of appreciation they received, I wanted to be there on the dais and experience that myself.

I want to go down as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, receiver of my era.

I wanted to be part of Jordan Brand, because I saw Randy Moss, my favorite receiver, wearing Jordans when I was younger. I wanted to do everything like Randy.

Cris Carter and Randy Moss - they're the guys who made me want to play football and be a receiver.

I kinda wanted to play receiver more.

Actually just recently I came up with that idea, watching the movie 'Legally Blonde' and I was like, 'Cool, that's something I want to do.'

It's overwhelming and humbling to be the recipient of a National Award, and I only hope to find scripts now that will solidify that honor.

I always wanted to be Jo in 'Little Women.' She's a bit reckless and feckless, always getting into trouble like me. But I'm probably more like Madame Bovary.

I reckon, if I was a girl, I'd fancy Johnny Depp - he's pretty cool. I wish I looked like Johnny Depp.

I don't reckon there are many writers who start out really expecting writing to be an attainable occupation. Well, I didn't. It was a pipe dream.

As a child I played cricket as a hobby. Once you started playing for your school, you became more ambitious. You reckoned you could play for the state. Then you started to think about the country. But it happened so quickly for me, I started playing for the school at 13, for Bombay at 17, and at 18 I was in the Indian side.

The Ballon d'Or is nice, but at the end of the day, I want to have success and play good, and if people recognise me, then I'm happy.

I think my parents recognised that I'd always wanted to be a writer, and so they didn't think that this was some idle, faddish wish on my part.