I Realized Quotes - Page 36

• It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain. When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too. I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick.

  Adolphe Menjou

  Jobs, Silent Films, Walking Sticks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Once I started the first school, I realized this is what my life is meant to be, is to promote education and help kids go to school and that's very clear.

  Greg Mortenson

  School, Kids, Firsts

  "Greg Mortenson: 'Ordinary Oprah'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 12, 2009.

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• I understood that I was not the best director in the world nor the worst director in the world. I realized that there is a very mysterious element to what works and what doesn't work in the theater. And it's good to know that from the beginning.

  Joe Mantello

  Directors, Elements, World

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• One of my favorite programs that we didn't make is Rescue Time. It runs in the corner of my computer and tracks how much time I spend on different things. I realized that even though I was doing e-mail only a couple of minutes at a time, it was adding up to a couple of hours a day. So I'm trying to reduce that.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Running, Couple, Track

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• That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.

  Barry McGuire

  Real, Night, Men

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• I realized that I was about to turn 30, and Batman was permanently 29. And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.

  Frank Miller

  Turns, Ifs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I realized going back and writing and explaining in details the difficulties I had lived actually became emotional again. It's like therapy but sometimes therapy can be painful. But it's
  part of life and part of the autobiography so I'll have to finish it sooner or later.

  Jenni Rivera

  Writing, Emotional, Details

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• It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.

  Dick Cavett

  Jobs, Sleep, College

  "On the Couch... with Dick Cavett". Interview with Deborah Serani, www.psychologytoday.com. April 21, 2011.

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• When I was there at Marvel, everybody thought if you could draw well and you could do sensational panels, that you were going to be a success. The truth is that no matter how good or bad you are as a draftsman, if you can't tell a story, you don't last in comics. ...About halfway through my stay at Marvel, I realized I was being paid to tell a story, not do a drawing. That's why my stuff is always rather simple and uncomplicated compared to a lot of guys.

  John Romita, Sr.

  Book, Simple, Drawing

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• I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Book

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• And it was only a week later that I realized a close up of Steve McQueen was worth the greatest landscape you could find.

  William Friedkin

  Landscape, Week, Mcqueen

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• I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's not the way I should do things.

  Marilyn Manson

  Song, Writing, People

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• Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.

  Cara Castronuova

  Ideas, Boxing, Beats

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• I think I realized early on that my family wasn't like other families.

  Victoria Gotti

  Thinking, My Family

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• I have only hated men at those moments when I realized that I was doing all the giving and they the taking. At least when I was a prostitute, it was all honest and upfront.

  Xaviera Hollander

  Men, Giving, Honest

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• But certainly the laser proved to be what I realized it was going to be. At that moment in my life I was too ignorant in business law to be able to do it right, and if I did it over again probably the same damn thing would happen.

  Gordon Gould

  Law, Ignorant, Able

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• I realized early on, maybe better than some of my competitors did, that a textile business can run only if you have scale. I decided to horizontally and vertically integrate, adding everything from spinning, dyeing, weaving, and stitching to processing and packing.

  Mian Muhammad Mansha

  Running, Textiles, Weaving

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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. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

  Stan Dale

  Sweet, Fear, Hands

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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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• 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 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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