I Realized Quotes - Page 38

• Since I moved six or seven times the first year I was in New York, I had to be able to roll up the work, and paper would just get destroyed. Once I looked at what I'd done, I realized I had made a painting, sort of by default.

  David Salle

  New York, Years, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was younger I was very opinionated about art. And then, I realized that I kind of recognized this pattern where the things that I was vehemently of pissed off about, I would end up loving them two years later. So I just tried to mellow out. Like there's art that I think is pretty silly, but it doesn't get under my skin like it used to.

  Joe Bradley

  Art, Silly, Thinking

  Interview with Laura Hoptman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 15, 2013.

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• 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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• Everest is regarded as one of, if not the most challenging of human conquests. I was passionate about climbing and a great believer that one should always challenge their own perception of where their boundaries lie. Everest seemed like an irrational challenge for an Egyptian, so I embraced it wholeheartedly. This feeling grew stronger when I realized that no Egyptian had attempted, let alone stood, on the roof of the world. The desire and pride of representing my country and raising the Egyptian flag on the highest points on earth has been with me ever since.

  Omar Samra

  Country, Lying, Pride

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• I've come across enough successful people now to know that the best in whatever walk of life, they're the ones who just work the hardest. I realized that if I want to be the best and fulfill my potential, I'm going to have to do the same thing. And for those who are lucky enough to be born with a gift and then choose to work the hardest-I mean, that's the combination.

  Rory McIlroy

  Mean, Successful, People

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• Night and day a picture of the showcase of the Lame Novelty Company and its gambling content would seem to appear before my eyes. Then I realized that I could not rest content and continue practising to become a magician until I knew what those gambling gimmicks in that showcase click.

  John Scarne

  Eye, Night, Gambling

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• I think I realized very early on that you can spend a lot of time constructing a really perfect scene in final draft and just end up throwing it away because you didn't figure out that mathematics of the story first.

  Brit Marling

  Thinking, Perfect, Finals

  "Brit Marling Talks SOUND OF MY VOICE, THE EAST, Working with Robert Redford in THE COMPANY YOU KEEP, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 27, 2012.

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• Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.

  Charles de Lint

  Teenager, Book, Obsessive Love

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• I've always wrestled with the difference between plot and structure, and after re-reading a lot of writing books I realized I wasn't alone.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• I realized that I don't like touring. I'll never complain about it because no one wants to hear about a relatively successful musician complain about the hardships of staying in a hotel.

  Moby

  Successful, Musician, Complaining

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• I went to Columbia University because they were doing a study on people who suffered from panic attacks, and because I suffered from panic attacks my whole life, I decided to be a part of it. They had this questionnaire where they asked, How many units of alcohol do you have in a month? The top answer was 40 or more, and I got really scared because I was having on average 60 or 70 drinks a week. And I realized that that was a bad sign.

  Moby

  Average, People, Alcohol

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• I had horrible moment at the end of a very successful day, where I realized I just felt nothing about it and I didn't care. And I had that fear that I would, because I was successful at it, that I would be there 20, 30 years down the road, doing this job and just not caring about what I did.

  Dan Povenmire

  Jobs, Successful, Caring

  Source: www.slate.com

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• In the past, when I saw bike messengers, I would just see them as individuals. Then, I realized that they're all tied together.

  Dania Ramirez

  Past, Together, Messengers

  Source: collider.com

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• I was an assistant director for a year, and I realized, 'God, this is a lot of hard work. This is going to take time. So what's the shortcut? What's the better option?' Then thankfully, someone said, 'Why don't you become an actor?'

  Emraan Hashmi

  Hard Work, Years, Directors

  "Emraan Hashmi: I Like to Kiss in First Scene". "The Front Row with Anupama Chopra", blogs.wsj.com. October 18, 2013.

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• Assoon as I stepped out of my mother's womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.

  Quentin Crisp

  Mother, Children, Mistake

  1968 The Naked Civil Servant, ch.2.

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• Father and Mother had told their own little lies very well, and I realized immediately that the Gerrisens didn't know a thing. And yet, my realization that they didn't know what I'd been through was like a cold shower for just a moment. Here I was looking at the first really familiar faces I'd seen in over a year, and they acted as though I'd merely been on vacation.

  Diet Eman

  Mother, Father, Lying

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• Before 2010, I had a vision. I saw a family in my mind that I wanted to have. And I was pushing and driving hard for my picture, and then I realized everyone has their own journey. I have to support what they want to do. I have to support the vision that they have for themselves, not my vision. That was excruciating for me.

  Will Smith

  Journey, Support, Mind

  Source: www.esquire.com

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