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For most of us, when our 'dreams' - I use the word with reservations - came true, and marriage and motherhood became a reality, the romcoms, like horoscopes, swiftly lost their allure.
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Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.


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We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth.
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My parents wanted us to be pool-safe, so I had lessons when I was 18 months old. I would like to share with all the parents out there that I was that kid who cried during every one of my lessons. But it wasn't an option for my parents; we had a backyard pool, so I needed to learn how to swim.
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Women of this planet need some essential resources: wells, seeds and roads. That is primarily all we have ever needed. Added to that, women need righteous and strong men who will help us to use our most cherished gifts: the ability to multitask and problem solve.
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Love's a recurring theme through my work.


Tracy Chapman
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.


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It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.


James Patterson
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That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.
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Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams.


John Huston
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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.


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We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.


Jesse Jackson
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Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.


Virginia Woolf
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We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.


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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.


Gaston Bachelard
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Although we didn't have much when I was growing up in Split, Croatia, my parents always tried to ensure that my sister and I had the things we needed, and it was enough for us.
Goran Ivanisevic
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I feel very, very lucky to have come from the family I did. We have our dysfunctions and our problems, just like any family. But my parents are extremely loving people.
Annette Bening
To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.
Peter McWilliams
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I've yet to use a cellphone, and I've never tweeted or entered Facebook. I try not to go online till my day's writing is finished, and I moved from Manhattan to rural Japan in part so I could more easily survive for long stretches entirely on foot, and every trip to the movies would be an event.
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