Quotes About Aspiration

wanted that kind of life even though I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.

was thinking hard about something. He loved her intelligence. He told her that she was wasted in teaching, that she should be out there doing something for herself.

You think you can have everything. But you can't.

From dreams reality is born.

Feathers needed, swan preferred.

Okay then." She nodded. "Then let's do this." "Now before we start, there is one thing you always need to keep in mind during this process." "What?" "That everyone, at some point in their life, wants to fly. And soon you'll actually be doing it." "Which means . . . what? Exactly." "That you're better than everyone else.

I've gotten tons of awards and I believe when it's my time to get a Grammy, I'll get a Grammy.

I had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were poems.

I always wanted to tell stories. From the time I had 20 cents or a quarter in my pocket, I could peddle my old Rambler 500 down to the corner store and buy comic books.

A lot of people have it - that fantasy of being lord or lady of the manor, either in the present or at some time in history.

I collect postage stamps. That's the only thing I can afford to collect! I hope in five years' time to say, "Yes, I specialize in Gustav Dore first editions."

I'd love to have time to do my hair, honestly. I'd love to be Victoria Beckham just for one day - to look that good. But I can't.

If you had of told me age 10 that in 19 years time I would be on a stage in Salford performing with Les Dennis in a sitcom I had written, I would have believed you.

As a musician, I know that it'll take time for me to get to the ranks of an established artiste. Nevertheless, I'm very happy that people are appreciating my music.

I've always had a soft spot for dreamers – not those who waste their time thinking 'what if' but the ones who look to the sky and say 'why can't I shoot for the moon?'

If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!

The Deer Hunter is securely on my list of American movie events, by which I mean those films that aspired to the whole equation, to be show business and art at the same time.

I wanted to be an actress. I think it had a lot to do with being a kid and watching how every time my dad would stand up to talk people would applaud... that was pretty cool.

Dreams come true all the time, just not for the dreamers

When I was young I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.

I think a lot of the time having someone who you, not base yourself on, but can see yourself being after a few years, you can get quite blinded by that, in the same way love can be.

I wanted to be in an anti-gravity machine so bad! Maybe a different time, a different place.

When you first start out, you are just happy to get a job, any job. And as time goes on, either you move forward or screech to a halt.