I Realized Quotes - Page 30

• Somewhere in university, I realized that I hadn't been to classes in months, and I'd get tired to the point of narcolepsy doing anything other than some form of performing, directing, writing, or acting.

  William Shatner

  Writing, Tired, Class

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I realized that I really enjoy writing comedy, and how important comedy is when you feel like total crap.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Writing, Important, Comedy

  "Feeling Myself: Kathleen Hanna Gets Back to Work". Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. June 5, 2015.

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• I took a lot time to do the first album, and I was really happy about that album. I co-wrote the songs and it was a learning process. When I was working on that album I realized, for the first time, that I could write my own songs.

  Tove Styrke

  Song, Writing, Albums

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.

  Paul McCartney

  Pleasure, Mines

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 7, 2012.

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• In the two years of preparing material for shows, I realized there are elements that are definitely going to work live, but might not be the most exciting thing to put on a record. And there's stuff that I really love but it falls flat live.

  Girl Talk

  Fall, Years, Two

  "Girl Talk Dishes on New LP". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 26, 2010.

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• I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.

  Maurice Wilkes

  Mistake, Coders, Debugging

  Lecture titled "The Design and Use of the EDSAC" delivered by Maurice Wilkes at the Digital Computer Museum, tcm.computerhistory.org. September 23, 1979.

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• You never can tell when a bad thing might make a good thing happen. I realized that good and bad were always there and always mixed up together in a tangle.

  Ingrid Law

  Together, Might, Good Things

  Ingrid Law (2008). “Savvy”, p.302, Penguin

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• About twenty pages into Luke B. Goebel's Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, I realized I was reading with one hand holding my forehead and one balled at my waist, kind of clenched, and gazing down into the paper like a man soon to be converged upon. Goebel's testimony comes on like that: engrossing, fanatical, full of private grief, and yet, at the same time, charismatic, tender, and intrepid, aglow with more spirit than most Americans have the right to wield.

  Blake Butler

  Reading, Grief, Men

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• I realized that influence was inextricably linked to impact — the more influence you had, the more impact you could create. . . . The ability to make things go viral felt like the closest that we could get to having a human superpower.

  Emerson Spartz

  Impact, Influence, Viral

  "The Virologist" by Andrew Marantz, www.newyorker.com. January 5, 2015.

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• At first, I felt proud when someone said 'Your work looks like a man did it.' Then I realized that was stupid

  Annette Messager

  Stupid, Men, Proud

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• I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.

  Len Wein

  Best Effort, Lenses, Judgment

  "Speaking with...LEN WEIN PART ONE". Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.

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• I realized that an artist seeking to tell the truth in her art takes great courage. I recognize the courage required to bring children together from Israeli and Palestinian communities to find commonality in music as a very powerful and effective beginning towards Peace.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Children, Powerful

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• There was nobody at the time who was playing slide guitar like Johnny, and nobody, or no white guys at least, that was playing country blues like that on the acoustic guitar. And it was at that point that I realized what Johnny had to offer.

  Rick Derringer

  Country, Guitar, White

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• Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure places and make movies that six people went to see.

  Mickey Rourke

  Mistake, Hands, Years

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• I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education.

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Education, College, Fields

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• Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.

  Chuck Yeager

  Real, Sky, Experience

  Chuck Yeager (1986). “Yeager: An Autobiography”, Bantam

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• And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was was not the same as mine.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Music, Country, Texas

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• So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.

  Stephen Wolfram

  Nature, Years, Computer

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• I just turned 30 so I got really introspective as you do, questioning my life. And when I stopped and sort of looked back at the past decade, I realized I had done more work than I thought I had done.

  Sheryl Lee

  Past, Done, Introspective

  "The Bliss of Being Sheryl Lee / The career of `Twin Peaks' ' famous corpse has come alive on screen". Interview with Edward Guthman, www.sfgate.com. June 8, 1997.

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• I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights.

  Lusia Strus

  Respect, Believe, Character

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• Besides the physical strains I realized men can be pigs to women even when it's a man dressed as one.

  Michael Rosenbaum

  Men, Pigs, Strain

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• There were no shortcuts, I realized. It took years of racing to build up the mind and body and character until a rider had logged hundreds of races and thousands of miles of road. I wouldn't be able to win a Tour de France until I had enough iron in my legs, and lungs, and brain and Heart.

  Lance Armstrong

  Heart, Character, Winning

  Lance Armstrong (2012). “It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life”, p.50, Random House

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• Then when I reached college, I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods.

  Andrew Wiles

  College, Umpires, People

  "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.

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• I also became a vegetarian when I was 14 because I realized eating animals was cruel.

  Julia Hill

  Animal, Vegetarian, Eating

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• I loved reading the Dalai Lama's words: My religion is loving-kindness. I realized that meant loving-kindness to everyone in my life: past, present, and future; and that meant loving-kindness to myself-in my pain, in my jealousy, in my fear.

  Elizabeth Kim

  Pain, Kindness, Reading

  Elizabeth Kim (2000). “Ten Thousand Sorrows: The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan”

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