Adrian's ambition was to work in radio sport, and he achieved his dream after entering a BBC talent competition in 2001.
In 40 short chapters Mr Ben Jelloun weaves together a tapestry of exile and loss as he follows his characters through the dream and reality of leaving Tangier.
Patel saw his parents work hard to attain their middle class status and focus their attention on helping he and his siblings aspire to the great American Dream of building and owning your own business.
With three weeks to prepare, he gave up accounting and followed his dream to sing.
He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.
Other nights, he would fall asleep between his two gauchos and dream that his wife was leading their children by the hand and scolding him for the way he had let himself lapse into brutishness.
His lawyer says he was following his dream to become a commercial pilot and the schools were cheap.
And then I saw, around the edges of his face, in the balled musculature and the set of his eyes and jaw, that he was in a waking dream.
But, when he had to decide between a dream posting in a position he coveted and sowing his own entrepreneurial dreams of opening a surf school, he caught the wave.
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He is concerned with his own ambitions and his dream (or at least talk) of running in October for a third consecutive term.
In an emotional tribute to the slain civil rights leader earlier in the evening, King's children paid respect to their father and said he would have been proud of the party and the generation that would realize his dream.
However, had he not been a lawyer and instead was earning much less per year, he might have never realized his dream without seeking outside assistance.
From Disney, he says, everything he needed to know about how to dream (where Disney succeeded) and how to treat his employees (where he failed).
He kept his own council after Thierry Henry had cheated him of a World Cup dream and he has been impressive on and off the field.
He has turned his dream into a business, and has already sold 120 jets.
He has spent countless hours and personal resources to achieve his dream.
Then one day he bumped into another student at the UNIX lab, and his dream started to change again.
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After they were married in 1968, she followed him to Cornell University in upstate New York for his studies, and he urged her to pursue her dream of getting a university degree.
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And that stands in contrast with the other candidate who has said he would veto the DREAM Act, that he is uncertain about what his plan for immigration reform would be, and who considers the Arizona law a model for the nation and has suggested that the main solution for immigration is self-deportation.
Back at home in Minneapolis, he started a computer networking business and made enough money to make his dream come true.
He's planning on selling one of his remaining ranches and buying his dream one.
But despite the accolades that have come his way playing for Deportivo, and his two stints at French club Metz, he still has one dream unfulfilled.
While Frank Lucas is living the American Dream -- he marries a beauty queen and brings his momma (Ruby Dee) and his brothers over to share his suburban mansion -- Detective Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe) is studying law.
His dream was to be a sailor, and he went to Germany, he even managed to get a job on a ship, but then the German authorities found out he was too young, so they took him back to the border, and there the authorities from his home town were waiting.
Brought into the prospering family business (a tannery) by his father-in-law, Pierre spends his days in comfortable ennui and his nights in sexual frustration (revealed in a jaw-droppingly strange and clever dream sequence), which he hopes to cure with his comely new secretary (Nicole Kalfan), his contemplated pursuit of whom builds to a giant wind-up toy of ludicrously intricate complications.
So, he left Google in 2006 to pursue his dream of writing a cookbook and opening his own restaurant.
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It was a personal call-to-arms, a charge to act so that, as he was fond of saying, his children and grandchildren could also live the American dream.
After graduating from medical school in 1975 and from an orthopedic surgery residency, also at Hahnemann, he followed his dream into what was then considered a backwater field.
Passionate and self-taught, he left behind a career in law to follow his dream of becoming a filmmaker.
But Harrison admits he nearly walked away from the sport and almost gave up on his oft-stated dream of winning a world title.
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