What makes it difficult for people trying to follow a dream is that the whole time you feel like you’re slamming your head against the wall. So it’s nice to make a breakthrough and not kind of lying there with your head bleeding. – Lewis Black
It’s like a dream come true. When somebody is paying you to talk about yourself, you’ve won. – Kevin Smith
As a kid, I liked to write, but I didn’t think that was a viable career choice. My dream, actually, was to be a white girl rapper and join Salt-N-Pepa – which obviously was a much more viable career choice. – Karen Abbott
As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they’re struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart. – Karen Kingsbury
My dream artists to collaborate with are probably Cee Lo Green and Imogen Heap. They’re completely out of my genre but they’re both musical geniuses. – Kina Grannis
It’s all so surreal, and I’m living my dream. And you know, principal or not, I’m getting to dance all the roles that I’ve dreamed of doing. – Misty Copeland
You always dream of going to the Olympics and winning gold. I’ve learned over the years that there are lots of gold medals, but certain stories stick out and make a difference. – Kerri Strug
I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions. – Lady Gaga
It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very structured, very tailored… I wanted a bag you could put all of your things in it, you can open it, you could close it, you could hid all your tricks, but it’s not all lumpy. – L’Wren Scott
A great song should make you stop everything that you’re doing. You should be so into it that you just can’t imagine doing anything else for that moment. You wouldn’t even dream of picking up the phone. – Kara DioGuardi
I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel. – Lorene Scafaria
I think there’s nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge. – Laura Wilkinson
Singing in Spanish is much more honest, much closer to my roots. For me, Spanish is essential. I still think in Spanish, dream in Spanish. It’s the melodies and arrangements that transmit meaning. – Juanes
My dream role is to play in a story of how the Joker became the Joker, and I would play the young Heath Ledger. – Jonny Weston
I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the composer as a librettist. – Jacques Ibert
Unfortunately I put the opening date on the 5th of December 1941 and on the 7th of December the Japanese bombarded Pearl Harbour. My dream of a theater in Washington D.C. came to a prompt end. – Leon Askin
Choose beliefs that serve your soul – choose beliefs that serve the grander dream of who you choose to be. – Joy Page
David Duchovny is a dream; a dreamboat and a dream. He was so kind… He held my hand after we were done shooting and told me I did great. He’s so good at what he does. – Jillian Bach
What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you? – Khalil Gibran
It’s like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music. – Lenny Kravitz
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness. – Liberty Hyde Bailey
The Dream Act as it’s been written originally is too broad, to be honest. It basically would apply to too many people. – Marco Rubio
What upset me the most was not that I would die, but that I was letting down my parents. I felt very guilty for chasing this dream career of mine, at the expense of my parents. – Linda Vester
When I began to choreograph and find my way pulling other artists’ dreams out and changing music in a visual way, there was still a part of me that had something more to say. There was still a desire to rock a stage and ultimately perform the eight count of my dream, but there was a lot of insecurity there. – Laurieann Gibson
