Christina Rossetti Quotes
I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on.
Quotes to Explore
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And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.
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College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.
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We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
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One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.
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I've lived most people's dream by playing football.
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There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
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I want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live theater, and I think it's so important for me to be able to be on stage with an audience that responds.
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As delicate as 'Guy and Madeline' was, it was important that 'Whiplash' come off as more of a fever dream.
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Competing in London would be a dream come true.
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I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
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I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.
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When writers stop to sharpen pencils or get up and make coffee to procrastinate, they still stay in their heads with their characters. But when you zip over to read email or check your Facebook page, you get zapped out of the fictive dream. It's brutal on my writing.
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I think a culture can really be elevated through the arts, and it's always a dream come true when I come across roles that enable me to fuse my love of storytelling with my passion for activism and raising social awareness.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very good poet!
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I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people say, 'Ah yes, they good.' Maybe one day, they remember Jackie Chan that way.
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You can get through your whole day only around people who will tell you that you're wonderful. But pretty soon they're going to have to be lying about that.
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Tempo is the glue that sticks all elements of the golf swing together.
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When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.
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I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on.
