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***Movies:***
Jane Eyre: (from PBS series with Timothy Dalton)
The Little Prince (Gene Wilder as the Fox)
What's essential is invisible to the eye (8 min)
***Music:***
Everly Brothers
All I have to do is dream
Let it be me
Todd Rundgren:
Torch Song
***Music:***
Everly Brothers
All I have to do is dream
Let it be me
Todd Rundgren:
Torch Song
A dream goes on forever
Wait for me (with Daryll Hall)
Barbra Streisand
Lost inside of you (A Star is Born)
Chorale pieces:
The Road Not Taken (choir and orchestra; words only)
Wait for me (with Daryll Hall)
Barbra Streisand
Lost inside of you (A Star is Born)
Chorale pieces:
The Road Not Taken (choir and orchestra; words only)
Michelle Pillar:
***Musicals:***
Cinderella (Lesley Ann Warren and Stuart Damon)
Fiddler on the Roof (movie clips)
Mama Mia (movie clips)
Pippin (live Broadway production; 1971)
Miscellaneous inspirational videos:
QUOTES:
Dreams:
Dreams:
- The best way to make a dream come true is to wake up.
- Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so. (Belva Davis)
- Don't dream your life, live your dreams.
- Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. (James Dean)
- Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go, be what you want to be; you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do. Dreams are illustrations...from the book your soul is writing about you. (Marsha Norman)
- Dreams are necessary to life. (Anais Nin)
- Dreams can come true if you take the time to think about what you want in life
- Dreams come a size too big so you can grow into them
- Everyday is another chance to make your dreams come true.
- Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
- Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. (Louisa May Alcott)
- The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
- Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined. (Henry David Thoreau)
- A good reason to have dreams is that in dreams, you don't have to have reasons.
- Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. (Langston Hughes)
- I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. (W. B. Yeats)
- Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective. (Albert Schweitzer)
- The ideals which have always shown before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty and truth. (Albert Einstein)
- If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.If you can dream it, you can become it. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. (Goethe)
- If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. (Henry David Thoreau)
- Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. (Carl Sagan)
- Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. (Michelangelo)
- Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life completely.
- Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes.
- Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. (Henry David Thoreau)
- A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
- Some men see things as they are and ask, "Why?" I dream things that never were and ask, "Why not?"
- Some people dream of worthy accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them.
- The stars exist that you might know how high your dreams can soar.
- To be as much as we can be, we must dream of being more.
- Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. (Kahlil Gibran)
- When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly. (Frank Outlaw)
- When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme. (Jiminy Cricket)
- You are more likely to be successful at attempting to be better than yourself than to be better than someone else.
- You can do whatever you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
BEING ME Quotes:
- He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away. ~Raymond Hull
- God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. ~William Shakespeare
- Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ~Judy Garland
- We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
- If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. ~David Carradine
- A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. ~Paul Valéry, Mauvaises pensées et autres, 1942
- I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it. ~Robert Brault
- It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ~e.e. cummings
- Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep. ~Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, 1750
- Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. ~Homer
- How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. ~Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel
- "Be yourself" is about the worst advice you can give some people. ~Tom Masson
- Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. ~Harvey Fierstein
- Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. ~Henri Frederic Amiel
- I am much better employed from every point of view, when I live solely for my own satisfaction, than when I begin to worry about the world. The world frightens me, and a frightened man is no good for anything. ~George Gissing
- No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character. ~John Morley
- There is just one life for each of us: our own. ~Euripides
- Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. ~Benjamin Disraeli
- If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. ~Johann von Goethe
- Wherever you go, go with all your heart. ~Confucius
- Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you? ~Fanny Brice
- The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Originality is... a by-product of sincerity. ~Marianne Moore
- It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved. ~Robert Brault
- We are betrayed by what is false within. ~George Meredith
- Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. ~Oscar Wilde
- Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss
- It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. ~Desiderius Erasmus
- Like the sky opens after a rainy day we must open to ourselves.... Learn to love yourself for who you are and open so the world can see you shine. ~James Poland
- All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. ~Julius Charles Hare
- We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin. ~André Berthiaume, Contretemps
- You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand. ~Irene C. Kassorla
- Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
- You were born an original. Don't die a copy. ~John Mason
- It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not. ~Andre Gide
- Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required. ~Robert Brault,
- We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be ~Kurt Vonnegut
- One's real life is often the life that one does not lead. ~Oscar Wilde, L'Envoi to Rose-leaf and Apple-leaf, 1882