My standard answer is that I have the same struggles as any working parent but with the good fortune to be working in my dream job.
"I knew in my dream that one day Uncle Ut could help me to have freedom, " said Phuc, referring to him by an affectionate Vietnamese term.
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It all started when I quit my journalism job in order to pursue my dream of being a singer-songwriter.
In my book The Chinese Dream, I urge people in the West to see the differences between China and the West as complementary rather than contradictory.
In pursuit of my dream career, I have moved to new cities by myself, met amazing people, had exciting experiences and even got some world travel in along the way.
Although I profiled Jack Ma in my book The Chinese Dream, it was the first time I heard him in person giving a public speech.
"I'm shaking when I tell y'all I'm in the midst of my dream, " Mo'Nique said.
It drew me in not immediately but over the course of months and then years, during which I gradually realized that she stood in the back of my mind like a person in a dream, a person whose face you cannot see.
That being said, if I was so inclined, I could probably beg, borrow and steal my way to a down payment and a loan on my red, swoopy dream and have it parked in my driveway in a couple of weeks.
"Having a world champion this early in my career really is a dream come true, " said Nelson.
" I remember once waking up from a dream in which my mother, dead now for thirty-three years, was sipping tea at my kitchen table, reading a newspaper on the back of which there was the headline "Wrong Man, Right Name, Convicted in Murder Trial.
"I feel like I'm a different person in a way because I kind of made my dream come true, " says Milly, 10, whose credits include "Anything Goes" in Tampa, Fla.
My Dream Board hangs in my dressing area where I look at it each morning and evening.
Unbeknownst to me at the time my dream girl arrived in the first batch on the first day.
In a dream last night, my father, dead since 1997, was scraping the NRA sticker off the back window of his SUV.
You can build a football club as you want to build it with the people in the club and that was my dream.
One of my university friends told me I'd be "setting my career back" when I once discussed my dream of living in India.
It has been my dream to ride in that rally, not only because I love to ride but it would be an honor to ride in remembrance of our bravest heroes.
"I am getting used to the slow realisation that my dream of playing in the Rugby World Cup is over, but what is hardest is that I have only been here for two weeks and played just two games, " he said.
So I was able to fulfill my hippie dream and use these beautiful things that have been in the back of my mind for 40 years.
"My dream was to dance in the chorus of a Broadway show, " he said.
Of course it's a great challenge now and the people know my dream is to play in Madrid.
I've made no secret when Josh approached me about being a character in the strip that it was my lifelong dream to be a comic book character.
Less well known is the tragedy of my own local golf star, Jeff Julian, who was head pro at course near my home in Vermont before realizing his dream and making it on the PGA Tour.
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And after years and years of working my guts out day after day, I was blessed enough to sell my company in March of last year, giving me the freedom necessary to pursue my dream.
There was no moment where I had to challenge my parents specifically to try and achieve my dream, which is what happens in the movie.
Service in Rwanda is a dream for both me, and my partner John.
However, in writing my newly-released book, The Chinese Dream, I traveled all over China and spoke to hundreds of people.
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