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Young gentlemen with literary aspirations usually start a new university magazine, which for wit and pungency is designed to eclipse all such previous efforts, and I was no exception in the matter of this popular gambit.

~E. F. Benson

Topics: Aspirations Designed Eclipse Efforts Exception Gentlemen Literary Magazine Matter New No Exception Popular Previous Start University Which Wit Young

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I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I'm feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child's mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: Ask Aspirations Began Book Child Done Even Excited Feel Feeling Going Happen Happens He Him How Inquiry Knowing Line Make Me Mind Next Only Page Questions Reading Think Two Way While Without Words Writer I Think

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I never, ever would have imagined the kind of career I've had. It just wouldn't have occurred to me that anything like this could have been possible. I didn't have any such aspirations. And I still can't believe my good fortune.

~Edith Widder

Topics: Any Anything Aspirations Been Believe Career Could Ever Fortune Good Good Fortune Had Imagined Just Kind Like Me Never Occurred Possible Still Would

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I want to be known as a triple threat. I have aspirations to win an Oscar and a Grammy, and I also want to win a Tony. I want to be one of those guys like Frank Sinatra or Sammy Davis Jr. that crossed all those barriers of entertainment.

~Elijah Kelley

Topics: Also Aspirations Barriers Crossed Davis Entertainment Frank Frank Sinatra Grammy Guys Known Like Oscar Sinatra Those Threat Tony Triple Want Win

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Combine a left-leaning upbringing with a family with direct experience of the Holocaust and someone with aspirations to write and I guess, sooner or later, that person will have a stab at writing something about the Holocaust.

~Elliot Perlman

Topics: About Aspirations Combine Direct Experience Family Guess Holocaust Later Person Someone Something Sooner Sooner Or Later Upbringing Will Write Writing

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I think the fact that I am living my dream and being really productive and embarking on all my lifelong aspirations is proof enough that if I can do it, anyone can. I try to tell everybody to dream big and go after their dreams.

~Elliott Yamin

Topics: After Am Anyone Aspirations Being Big Dream Dreams Enough Everybody Fact Go Lifelong Living Productive Proof Really Tell Think Try I Think I Am I Can

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Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

~Eminem

Topics: Aspirations Been Believed Everybody Goals Life Nobody Point Them Whatever Where

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We live in an age of global expectations. Our hopes have converged in many ways, none more so than in our democratic aspirations.

~Eskinder Nega

Topics: Age Aspirations Democratic Expectations Global Hopes Live Many More None Our Than Ways

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Friendship is something whose depth fits human aspirations and fulfills human possibilities. It has heft to it, as a gold-piece does and a gambling chip does not.

~Eugene Kennedy

Topics: Aspirations Chip Depth Does Fits Friendship Fulfills Gambling Human Possibilities Something Whose

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I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.

~Evan Hunter

Topics: Aside Aspirations Award Broadway Like Modest Musical Nobel Nobel Prize Now Prize Pulitzer Tony Win Working Would

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