I Realized Quotes - Page 3

• I studied classical percussion for ten years. At one point I was thinking about going to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, but then I realized it's actually not what I wanted to do.

  Alycia Debnam Carey

  Thinking, Years, Percussion

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was on the set of the first Powers pilot, and an actor of color came up to me and said, "When I was a kid, my friends wouldn't let me play Batman or Superman, because I wasn't their color. But they would let me play Spider-Man. And that's the difference." And I realized I had heard this story a hundred times from different people, but I wasn't there in my head yet.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Kids, Men, Differences

  "Jessica Jones’ creator on the biggest change from comics to her Netflix show". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. June 29, 2016.

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• When I started studying the issue and issues related to fatherlessness, I realized I had all of them. Fear of intimacy, fear of commitment, poor work ethic, just stuff that you don't have when you don't have a man in your life to look you in the eye and say, "You're good," or "Good job."

  Donald Miller

  Jobs, Commitment, Eye

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I realized that I hated politics. I mean that is you know... I realized being in the jungle that what I had thought I could do, I mean changing the way politics were being done in Colombia, was not possible the way I wanted to do it - by confronting, by denouncing.

  Ingrid Betancourt

  Mean, Done, Way

  "Big Think Interview With Ingrid Betancourt". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 19, 2010.

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• There was [ in New York] - some of it was this perception of the Midwest that I realized in this multicultural city that - and I don't think it's as true as it was - but everyone was kind of like, what, are you Jewish? Are you Italian? What are you? You know, are you black? Are you da-da-da? Are you Puerto Rican? And so I ended up - my ethnic identity was Midwestern, was white bread. And so it informed a lot of my stand-up.

  Jim Gaffigan

  New York, Thinking, Italian

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I used to keep a dictionary and work with it and then I realized there are more words that exist in the English language than there are in this dictionary.

  Nas

  Language, Used, Dictionary

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• When I first walked through the doors of Rex Club, I realized that I didn't have to travel to raves outside the city to enjoy techno.

  Pedro Winter

  Doors, Cities, Firsts

  "Pedro Winter/Ed Banger". Interview with Heiko Hoffmann, pitchfork.com. July 8, 2008.

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• It was kind of sort of the heavens opened up and I realized that Bach, at least, you know - out of all the classical music - needs to be a big part of my life.

  Chris Thile

  Heaven, Needs, Kind

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• I'm not a fan of mysteries, so to prepare for this experience of writing a mystery I started reading the most successful ones in the market in 2012. And I realized I cannot write that kind of book. It's too gruesome, too violent, too dark; there's no redemption there.

  Isabel Allende

  Book, Reading, Writing

  "The Mystery Of Isabel Allende: Author Explores New Genre". "All Things Considered" with Kelly McEvers, nwpr.org. January 25, 2014.

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• I was obsessed with the scientific instruments people were building and all the weird experiments they were doing. I did actually wind up working in some of that, but there were whole sections I'd written about these instruments that ultimately had to be abandoned when I realized that the book really was about Margaret Cavendish. I couldn't justify using all of them.

  Danielle Dutton

  Book, Wind, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• When I came back to America, I realized that world music is no joke, it really has a lot to it.

  Zach Condon

  America, World, Music Is

  "Beirut". Interview with Jessica Suarez, pitchfork.com. August 21, 2006.

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• When I was writing the book, I thought "Who wants to hear another story about some actor who lost his way?" But my story is a little unique in that I realized when I was 14 years old that I was different. I think a lot of gay people use drugs and alcohol to quell that fear and shame - especially people of my age.

  Leslie Jordan

  Book, Writing, Gay

  "Candid Q & A with gay icon Leslie Jordan". Today Interview, www.today.com. July 16, 2008.

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• I was looking at pictures of cats laying out on the beach and I thought, "Cats hate water, so why would they like the beach?" But then I realized that cats like to just lay around and lounge and be lazy, and what better place to do that than on the beach?

  Bethany Cosentino

  Beach, Hate, Cat

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I realized that people don't quite understand what I do when I was the new kid on the block and a lot of Hollywood was offering me fairly cheesy projects.

  DJ Shadow

  Block, Kids, Offering

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I started having a couple of beers and loosening up, I realized how many years I had wasted going back to my hotel room alone when I could have gone and just had a beer or two.

  Bradford Cox

  Couple, Beer, Years

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I love how Mother Theresa said she wouldn't attend an anti-war rally but if there was a peace rally to call her. So I realized it's not about waging a war against everybody's disease and diagnosis but rather about helping them live.

  Bernie Siegel

  Mother, War, Disease

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Virginia Mayo had kind of a small role in The Best Years of Our Lives, but you got the whole character in one scene. Where are those parts? I was talking to somebody about great actors: Morgan Freeman's name came up, Forest Whitaker, Denzel Washington. And I realized, there're no black actresses. Where's there a black actress who's been extremely successful in the past 10 years?

  Laura Dern

  Character, Successful, Past

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• When I realized, "Hm, I'm not that good at all. It will take me weeks, maybe months, to master the 32 yolks." When I did, it was a turning point in my career.

  Eric Ripert

  Careers, Months, Week

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I can be highly competitive, which is ultimately why I chose yoga as a career. I thought it would drain the competitive drive out of me and allow me to be present and content. The yoga world has become highly competitive since then and it used to drive me crazy until I realized there's work for everyone.

  Kathryn Budig

  Crazy, Yoga, Careers

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• I realized, in removing or rewriting these jokes, that often the jokes weren't done or that I was using, for me, the curse words as kind of a crutch. So then I just started writing.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Writing, Done, Kind

  "Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2015.

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• I took my fear to literal heights and went skydiving over a year ago. It was in that moment, gazing over the precipice of the plane, when I realized what scared me the most, the unknown.

  Kathryn Budig

  Years, Gazing, Height

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• Over the years I realized the damage fundamentalism did to my own spiritual and mental health. I've spend time recovering, studying scripture, sessions with a therapist, twelve step recovery.

  Richard Rossi

  Spiritual, Recovery, Years

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• After a couple of years, I realized that this was actually true, that his gave me the ability to go to a different place and, hopefully, have a stronger impact.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Couple, Impact, Years

  "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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• There are no more slow weeks. I realized this about 3 years ago. Downtime in politics isn't a thing.

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Years, Downtime, Week

  "The Fix Live". live.washingtonpost.com. June 24, 2016.

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• And once I was in college, about - maybe the end of my first semester of my sophomore year, I realized that college just was not my jam and that I felt like I was learning more when is actually on set. And I think a lot of that had to do with - I was working while I was in college. I was on "227," so I didn't get a chance to really be immersed in the culture of my school.

  Regina King

  School, College, Thinking

  "For Actress Regina King, A Childhood Gig Launched A Career In Hollywood". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 21, 2016.

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