"I would stare into the bright lights and imagine I could do anything. Be anything. And I would tell myself it would be me up there one day."
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"When Ma died, I didn't know how to go on, either. I don't know how. I don't feel the same know, not exactly. Now that I see that one day comes after another and you get through them one measure at a time. But I'd like to go, not like Fonda Nye, I don't want to die, I just want to go, away, out of the dust."
"I woke up one day to the fact that the earth's surface was made for living plants, not industrial plants."
"The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines."
"There are actors who aren't on the cover of magazines but still decide what work they want and when they want it. I want a family one day. So I dream of really being able to decide when to work and when not to."
"...that melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and realise that we have at last begun to live in real earnest, as a grown-up person, the life, the only life that any of us has at his disposal."
"Because of my age, the roles that I'm in doesn't have as much depth as I would like, but that will change. Halle Berry, Angelina Jolie, they play heavy, meaty roles, which are the sort that I want to play...because of what I look like, I play with my looks, which is cool, but I've done it so many times. But one day I would love to play against my looks."
"When I was younger, I used to say, One day I'll be famous."
"Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature."
"'Fox News' will one day come to an end. Led Zeppelin will not. It's as simple as that."
"one day in the country is exactly like another."
"Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective."
"The musicians one day are going to listen to me."
"One day, the idea that God loved me dropped from my head into my heart."
"We worked six days a week [on the The Breakfast Club], so you have one day off. So on that Saturday night, it's not like we could all go out and have a drink because Molly [Ringwald ] and Michael [Hall] weren't old enough. And Ally [Sheedy] pretty much kept to herself. So Emilio and I, every Saturday night, would go into Chicago because we were shooting outside of Chicago in Des Plaines. It's so funny, because even though we might be adversaries in the film, we certainly weren't off-camera. He's a very funny guy."
"I awoke one day to find myself famous."
"There are so many misperceptions and stereotypes out there that I would love to see clarified one day."
"one day anyone died i guess (and noone stooped to kiss his face) busy folk buried them side by side little by little and was by was"
"While we live, let us live."
"My hope and wish is that one day, formal education will pay attention to what I call 'education of the heart'."