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This may sound strange but I had dreams as a kid of doing exactly what I ended up doing in my life.

The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.

I had a dream, when I was little, to become a police officer and a crime investigator.

My dream had always just been to do my work well, fall in love and build a life for myself.

When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read.

My one ambition was to go to Broadway, and I never gave up on that dream.

My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was to become an astronomer, and I pursued in parallel efforts and studies in these two areas.

One of my first dreams when I was a child was becoming a painter.

I've lived out many of the dreams I had as a little girl, back when I was riding my pony, mucking stalls, feeding cows, aspiring to finally become a professional jockey and racing in stakes races on a worldwide stage.

When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.