I Realized Quotes - Page 29

• I realized, there are people out there who can beat me, want to beat me. And unless I continue to innovate and evolve, I am going to learn a painful lesson from someone who has.

  Andrew Johnson

  People, Lessons, Want

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• One day I realized that it didn't matter whether people loved me or not.

  Shirley Manson

  People, One Day, Matter

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• Where is home? I've wondered where home is, and I realized, it's not Mars or someplace like that, it's Indianapolis when I was nine years old. I had a brother and a sister, a cat and a dog, and a mother and a father and uncles and aunts. And there's no way I can get there again.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Mother, Dog, Brother

  "The world according to Kurt". Interview with Simon Houpt, Globe and Mail (Toronto), October 11, 2005.

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• I realized I could do anything if I wanted it badly enough.

  S. Truett Cathy

  Enough, Wanted, Ifs

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• I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around. I worked in a neuroscience lab as an undergraduate and then after, almost five years in total, but I realized I just wasn't good at science. I didn't have the discipline for it.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Years, Discipline, Labs

  "Jonah Lehrer: We can all be as creative as Picasso... we just have to learn how". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2012.

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• I realized why I need to start a new company. Not for the money. Not because I'm 'bored'. But because a company is a laboratory to try your ideas.

  Derek Sivers

  Ideas, Bored, Trying

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• Well, I realized finally that all of the hard work paid off.

  David Naughton

  Hard Work, Wells, Paid Off

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• I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.

  Sam Raimi

  Students, Film, One Thing

  "INTERVIEW: Sam Raimi Opens “The Gift,” Discovers Suspense Indiewood-Style". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. January 16, 2001.

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• Singing has always been a part of my life. I started at Opryland singing, and I realized I could make a living at it. I thought it was something I would grow out of. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. Everything's just sorta fallen into place.

  Kassie DePaiva

  Singing, Fallen, Grows

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• I realized how important it was to know something about aviation, and it was something I was interested in, so I followed my brother's footsteps and obtained my pilot's license.

  Ellen Ochoa

  Brother, Important, Pilots

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• It's through working with a lot of first-time directors that I realized that people learn on their feet. Everybody works on something for a different reason. Everybody has got something new to learn on these sets, and you don't have to know everything, the second you start.

  Jess Weixler

  Feet, People, Directors

  "Jess Weixler and Director Jay Gammill Talk FREE SAMPLES, Making an Unpleasant Character Likeable, and Changes from the Script". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 29, 2013.

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• It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too.

  Stan Dale

  Scared, Planets, Changed

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• I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  Cameras, Directors, Exciting

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• I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.

  Richard Donner

  Genius, Motion Pictures

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• You see, years ago I was just an ordinary bee minding my own business, smelling flowers all day, and occasionally picking up part-time work in people's bonnets. Then one day I realized that I'd never amount to anything without an education and, being naturally adept at spelling, I decided that—

  Norton Juster

  Flower, Years, People

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.54, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• After being in the studio, I realized this is how I want to be. It just feels right.

  Aurora Aksnes

  Want, Feels Right, Studios

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm not even sure I like surgery, but I like what it does, I like the effects. I like to be able to give people longevity and quality of life, and I also think it's good for people to use the special gifts and talents that they have. And when I was in medical school, when I began to analyze the gifts and talents that I had, I realized that surgery would probably be a very good fit for me.

  Benjamin Carson

  School, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Acting is just another way to express myself as an artist. I realized if you're an artist, you're an artist and you can express that through music, through painting, through photography, through acting - this is just another way for me to express myself.

  Common

  Photography, Artist, Acting

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I realized, dumb people don't know they're dumb. When people try to make me laugh and they try to be funny, that's when they lose me. I find a lot of comedy in honesty.

  Nathan Fillion

  Honesty, People, Laughing

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. March 9, 2009.

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• I've done so many interviews that I've gotten past the ego and the personality. I used to feel that there might be something missing, but a few years ago I realized that I was so causative over how the interview went that I was no longer concerned over the effects of the interview.

  John Travolta

  Past, Years, Missing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I realized that one cannot reveal oneself without mannerism, without some evident trace of one's personality. But all the same one should not go too far in that direction.

  Georges Braque

  Personality, Revelations, Should

  "Letters of the Great Artists - From Blake to Pollock". Book by Richard Friedenthal, Translation by Daphne Woodward, p. 265, 1963.

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• I thought that from the moment someone else could do the same as myself, there was no difference between the pictures and they should not be signed. Afterwards I realized it was not so and began to sign my pictures again. Picasso had begun again anyhow.

  Georges Braque

  Differences, Signatures, Moments

  "Letters of the Great Artists - From Blake to Pollock". Book by Richard Friedenthal, Translation by Daphne Woodward, p. 265, 1963.

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• When I turned 18, was the first time that I really started concentrating on politics. And I started doing so because I realized that in order to really create and generate change, it has to come from changing laws... so I started campaigning for Norman Lear's foundation, which was Declare Yourself.

  Hayden Panettiere

  Order, Law, Foundation

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• My child looked at me and I looked back at him in the delivery room, and I realized that out of a sea of infinite possibilities it had come down to this: a specific person, born on the hottest day of the year, conceived on a Christmas Eve, made by his father and me miraculously from scratch.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Father, Years

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.209, Ballantine Books

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• I was just trying to make a nice little movie... It wasn't until I saw it all put together that I realized this was something remarkable.

  Mike Nichols

  Nice, Trying, Together

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