I Realized Quotes - Page 14

• I put a lot of pressure on myself early in my life, like, "You have to be perfect; you can't do anything." You basically can't show any emotion and speak up. And then I realized that I have to live my life for myself.

  Rowan Blanchard

  Perfect, Pressure, Emotion

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When my grandmother died, I realized that even if I had millions of dollars, I couldn't find her anywhere on earth. My next thought was that I would die. I looked at my life and thought, "I'm afraid to die." I concluded that whether I was afraid or not, I would die. It was one of the most important crossroads in my life, once I realized that no matter what, I would do this thing, the next step was to think, "If I am going to do the most difficult and frightening thing - dying - is it possible that I could do some difficult and impossible things that are good?"

  Maya Angelou

  Grandmother, Thinking, Impossible Things

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2000.

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• I realized, "Gee, you're making the same film over and over here." I just kept making them for my own amusement, but also with this thought in my head that I could collect enough songs to make an album out of it. I am attracted to non-dramatic moments in life. The idea of a coffee break is not something you'd think of as being an important part of your day, so these shorts were like little free zones in which we could just play around.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Song, Coffee, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Back 12 years ago, when Dr. Mathews was president here, we had a plan that when I got ready to quit, we'd bring a certain guy in and he'd take over that day and I'd leave. But as time wore on, I realized that wouldn't have been good at all.

  Bear Bryant

  Sports, Years, Guy

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• At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sleepless intriguing mind. I had the idea that there, among criminals, were people to fight: clever, vigorous, crafty fellows. Later I realized that it was good that I did not become one, for most police cases involve misery and wretchedness-not crimes and scandals.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Clever, Fighting, Ideas

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• I decided to make 'Captain America' because I realized I wasn't doing the film because it terrified me. You can't make decisions based on fear.

  Chris Evans

  America, Decision, Captains

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• My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.

  Ang Lee

  Couple, Firsts, Stories

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• I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I wasn't a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Kids, Remember, Life Experience

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• I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

  Ricky Williams

  Compassion, Use, Saws

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• I'm really super feminine, and I'm really soft. I'm very sensitive, I realized.

  Serena Williams

  Sensitive, Feminine

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• Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians.

  Sarah Zettel

  Doors, Way, Next

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• I do remember the moment when, as a child, I realized that the things we call 'TV shows' are really just the stuff that gets put between commercials. Later, I came to see that the kinds of things that get on 'free' TV are shows that help sell products.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Children, Tv Shows, Stuff

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• I felt I couldn't lose anything else, but just then I realized I already had: I'd lost the hope that I would ever be loved in just that way again.

  Melissa Bank

  Way, Lost, Loses

  Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.138, Penguin

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• I wanted to cry, but I realized that I was too old for that. I would be a woman soon and I would have to learn how to live with a divided heart.

  Anita Diament

  Heart, Would Be, Cry

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• The last time I saw that crooked stupid smile on your face, I got-a-so mad, but then I realized...that crooked stupid smile is there all the time.

  Santino Marella

  Stupid, Wrestling, Mad

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• That's when I realized that certain moments go on forever. Even after they're over they still go on, even after you're dead and buried, those moments are lasting still, backward and forward, on into infinity. They are everything and everywhere all at once. They are the meaning.

  Lauren Oliver

  Forever, Goes On, Infinity

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.294, Hachette UK

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• "Hey Jacob!" I felt an unfamiliar surge of enthusiasm at his smile. I realized that I was pleased to see him. This knowledge surprised me. I smiled back, and something clicked silently into place, like two corresponding puzzle pieces. I'd forgotten how much I really liked Jacob Black.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Two, Black, Enthusiasm

  "New Moon". Book by Stephenie Meyer, September 6, 2006.

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• I'd accepted a while ago that there were too many reasons for me to even think about him romantically anymore. Every once in a while, I slipped a little and kind of wished he would too. It'd have been nice to know that he still wanted me, that I still drove him crazy. Studying him now, I realized he might not ever slip because I didn't drive him crazy anymore. It was a depressing thought.

  Richelle Mead

  Depressing, Crazy, Nice

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Frostbite: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.35, Penguin

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• I was in his hands, he called me by the thunder at my ear. I was in his hands: I was being changed; all that I could do was cling to him. I did not realize, until I realized it, that I was also kissing him, that everything was breaking and changing and turning in me and moving toward him.

  James A. Baldwin

  Moving, Kissing, Hands

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• I realized that I was really tired of people popping on and off of my property like it was a train station on the supernatural railroad.

  Charlaine Harris

  Tired, People, Railroads

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.99, Penguin

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• I always thought love made you stupid. Made you weak. A bad Shadowhunter. 'To love is to destroy.'I believed that[...]I used to think being a good warrior meant not caring,[...] And then I met you. You were a mundane. Weak. Not a fighter. Never trained[...] Love didn't make you weak, it made you stronger than anyone I'd ever met. And I realized I was the one who was weak.

  Cassandra Clare

  Stupid, Caring, Warrior

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• And that is how Goodwin problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don't go to the root, always ignoring the elephant in the room. I think that morning was when I realized I'd grown up with an elephant in every room of my life. It was practically our family pet.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Morning, Thinking, Elephants

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• I’ll never die", he said. Before I could protest, Lucas put two fingers on my lips, his smile seemed to fill the room with lights and I realized he was telling a deeper kind of truth then I’d ever known before “You’ll live forever and being remembered by you is the only immortality I’ll ever need if I only live on as a part of you – Bianca, that’s my idea of heaven

  Claudia Gray

  Ideas, Two, Light

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• The room fell quiet. And as I read down the list of over one hundred and fifty eight-grade boys, I realized that to me, there had only ever been one boy.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Crush, Boys, Eight

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• The image I'd had of myself as a child was someone I'd never be, and it was only recently that I realized it was okay to be who I was. - Cat

  Jeaniene Frost

  Children, Cat, Okay

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