Billy Campbell Quotes
When I first came to Hollywood, I used to dream of doing films and escaping television.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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I'd always wanted to be an action heroine. That's a chick dream, getting to wear a leather bodysuit and be blonde and kick ass. But, what really attracted me to 'Dredd' was the script. It was fantastic! It was about people and characters, and not just about explosions and fighting.
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Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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When I have a bad day, I dream about opening up a gelato stand on the streets of Sydney, Australia. Doesn't everyone have a random escape fantasy?
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India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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I have this dream of what I ultimately want my life to be like, and it involves a lot of quaint activities like cooking and canoeing and camping and hiking.
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Like, you can find your dream, if you firmly believe. You have to have the innocence, and you have to have the daringness to trust.
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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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'Planet Earth' was such an extraordinary series and the 'Making Of'... is fascinating: the creatures and stories behind the camera are just as fascinating as those in front. It's a bit of a dream come true to be a part of the team in some small way.
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I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I'm very lucky.
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But the good news was that my elder sister refused to get married straight away and I couldn't get married until she did so I had the licence to go off and dream.
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Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.
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I'm older and wiser, but I still dream of doing new things and creating new things.
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To act: that is what the writer would like to be able to do, above all. To act, rather than to bear witness. To write, imagine, and dream in such a way that his words and inventions and dreams will have an impact upon reality, will change people's minds and hearts, will prepare the way for a better world.
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Something like 'Rust and Bone' would be a dream. Very pared down. 'Orphan Black' is such a challenge. I just need something that isn't as full-on intense as that.
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I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.
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I say, 'If I'm able to go out there and achieve a dream, then anybody can do it.'
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People may say 'What can I do? I'm only one person.' But we've proven that when we come together demonstrate, and speak our piece, there is no way the power structure can avoid being attentive.
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The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.
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It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent.
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When I first came to Hollywood, I used to dream of doing films and escaping television.
