I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.
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IVOR NOVELLO The beautiful heroine might be thinking, How long must I bury my face on this wretched man's sho...
IVOR NOVELLO There is an atmosphere about the picture theatre that speaks of entertainment and relaxation. The ch...
IVOR NOVELLO British girls are as temperamental as Americans.
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IVOR NOVELLO There's something Vichy about the French.
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IVOR NOVELLO Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is...
IVOR NOVELLO My legendary speaking career began right here on this stage.
KEN DRYDEN How I adored to draw as a child, a teen; all my life before I began to try and shape a career out of...
SARA BAUME Working with Mrs. Clarke at The Gryphon School is when I really began to think of acting as a potent...
BEN HARDY I was diagnosed with dyslexia when I was seven, and it was a bit of a struggle to begin with. It was...
PRINCESS BEATRICE OF YORK I grew up in the theater. I began my career at 3. That was the first time I stepped onto a provision...
DEMIAN BICHIR My acting career began on the streets of New York. When I was a cop, I played many impressive roles,...
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OLIVER E. WILLIAMSON I've had dreams - there were three things I wanted to do during my career. I did them during my ...
CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what wa...
NATASHA TRETHEWEY My reasons for becoming a chef are somewhat of a cliche. I always loved to eat but it was watching m...
ALEXANDRA GUARNASCHELLI Early in my career, I was disappointed that psychoanalysis was not becoming more empirical, was not ...
ERIC KANDEL I have decided to end my career. I have achieved all the goals I set, all the dreams I had.
ALBERT COSTA لم يكن بمقدوري سوى الهروب إلى عالمي الخاص: إلى الحلم. أت...
مليكة مستظرف The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my...
GALEN ROWELL But frost, like the crystallized dreams of autumn, began to coat the clearing with its sugar glaze.
VICTORIA STEELE LOGUE Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard...
NANETTE L. AVERY Purchasing the Bobcats is the culmination of my post-playing career goal of becoming the majority ow...
MICHAEL JORDAN When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, wit...
DAVE BRUBECK What I've been doing with my misfit, so-called acting career in film from day one on my first fi...
JEREMY DAVIES Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer....
ORNETTE COLEMAN Becoming a writer is a polite way of saying you've chosen alcoholism as a career.
JOE DUCIE I was so lucky to have parents who supported me, 100%, with whatever I was doing, both financially a...
CAM GIGANDET I feel a great affinity to his way of thinking. That's why I wanted to work with him. He is a compos...
HAROLD PINTER In my next lifetime, I want to come back as a composer.
BOB FOSSE The only reason we want her out of the program is she is becoming busy with her career schedule.
CLAIRE ESPINA I have dreams of becoming a professional pastry chef and having a little bakery - that's how muc...
KIM BARNOUIN It was a June day when I began my career as a national journalist. I stepped into the Detroit Bureau...
WALT MOSSBERG By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER I began my career creating art for an animated feature film, and it has been a life-long dream to te...
THOMAS KINKADE I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I m...
EZRA POUND I was very young, and I was on vacation with my family, and there was a retrospective of old films, ...
DARIO ARGENTO I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.
RICHARD STRAUSS I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.
ROBERT WYATT Be careful of relying on the opinion of others, these are the same people that like liver.
NANETTE L. AVERY I think a lot of people thought my career started with Butch Cassidy.
ROBERT REDFORD I just have to take my chances like any other composer.
GORDON GETTY 'Wild Grinders' becoming an animated series, and airing on Nicktoons is another one of my bo...
ROB DYRDEK My acting career began when I walked into a drama school class run by Anna Scher in Islington. Anna ...
PHIL DANIELS I began to study martial arts because it was a great form of exercise, and I knew it would help my a...
OLGA FONDA My Mozart career began as a teenager in Los Angeles, singing arias from 'Le Nozze di Figaro'...
DANIELLE DE NIESE When I was 13, I entered the seminary in the hope of becoming a priest. But I often found myself hel...
JOEL ROBUCHON On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I...
DUKE ELLINGTON If that was my last pass, it was a great way to end my career. It's been great for me to play footba...
VINNY TESTAVERDE I've had my dream job. I have been able to work on issues that I have been deeply passionate about s...
ARTHUR LEVITT I've always dreamed of becoming a mother. I thought I would get married and do it all the tradit...
KYM WHITLEY I'm particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone.
TODD BARRY My undergraduate years at the University of Nebraska were a special time in my life: the combination...
ALAN J. HEEGER I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and
pursuits of false as...
IGOR STRAVINSKY I had my appendix removed in my 20s. I was in the middle of a play with Helen Mirren at the Royal Co...
CHERIE LUNGHI I want to take a more international direction with my career.
MALUMA I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex...
LA INDIA I started my career as a journalist, writing about science and technology for 'Business Week'...
MITCHEL RESNICK That's where I began my walk with the Lord. That's my calling card.
JAMES HELTON I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false as...
IGOR STRAVINSKY I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out fro...
NATASHA HENSTRIDGE Coming to the University of Arizona and being a part of the Adaptive Athletics Program helped me to ...
CHERI BLAUWET I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as...
JACQUES IBERT I've had really a great choice of roles that have been very different from one another. And I th...
ESSIE DAVIS Dvorak is a composer I adore,
ANDREW DAVIS Înţelege tot. Eu îl insult şi el mă urăşte. Sau invers" rîdea el.
GIOVANNI ARPINO Mai tii minte cat visai? Mai visezi?
GIOVANNI ARPINO I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way t...
HALEY BENNETT My life began with Ronnie.
NANCY REAGAN As a composer, I know that all sorts of sounds I hear are making their way into my brain and soul an...
ERIC WHITACRE I think 'Comic Book: The Movie' is the apex of my career in terms of making a personal state...
MARK HAMILL I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of workin...
YANN TIERSEN I bring you with reverent hands
The books of my numberless dreams.
W.B. YEATS When I was 13, I began relaxing my hair, and that meant when I turned 18 it began to crack and fall ...
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN I love it when a composer creates new sounds with it. That's most interesting for me.
KATHLEEN MCINTOSH The night before I began my career as a presidential campaign reporter, in September 2007, I finishe...
MICHAEL HASTINGS Yeah I grew up in the public eye. I became a man in the public eye, which is kind of a bizarre thing...
JONAH HILL Still, it's tough trying to combine my acting career with my college career.
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JASON DAY I've dealt with a lot of guns over my career, so I'm getting better and better with firearms...
WILL PATTON I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a compos...
GAVIN BRYARS I knew my team needed me. I didn't want to end my Public League career with a loss.
AMANDA THOMPSON A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.
ERNEST NEWMAN Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.
JOHN LITHGOW My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.
GIANNI VERSACE I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my ...
D.H. LAWRENCE I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my ...
D. H. LAWRENCE I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams...
JONAS SALK I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dream...
JONAS SALK I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams
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