I Realized Quotes - Page 39

• I realized that if you're trying to reach an audience, being as subjective as possible and really trying to write from something genuine is the way to go. Really it's mostly from my own process, my own experience.

  Christopher Nolan

  Writing, Trying, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• I remember sitting in my room and thinking of where it all went wrong and how I ended up losing control of everything, and I realized I hadn't asked myself one question: And then what? That was my most important lesson. I learned to think about the consequences before the action and that saves me, to this day, from a lot of trouble. If you play it down the line, you'll start making better choices.

  Karrine Steffans

  Thinking, Play, Losing Control

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• As a painter, I realized that what we see is just manifestation of unseen power. Since then [1958 Coup in Iraq], reality started to take another form in my mind. Hence, I was aware of deception of our senses.

  Ala Bashir

  Reality, Iraq, Mind

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• Of course there is sometimes a price to pay. While I was busy painting, not only was my light dissipating quickly, but the fog had crept in slowly at the same time. When I lifted my eyes from the panel, I realized that I had better get a move on - and quickly.

  Cory Trepanier

  Moving, Eye, Light

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• One night in the early sixties I passed something on the Long Island Expressway just before the Queens tunnel that I must have seen for years. The billboard advertising cigars, Dutch Masters. I realized it was sort of perfect. It's weird isn't it? You're looking at Rembrandt - in neon! It was too much, it was irresistible.

  Larry Rivers

  Queens, Night, Tunnels

  Larry Rivers, Carol Brightman (1979). “Drawings and digressions”, Clarkson Potter

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• I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.

  Ursula Burns

  People, Listening, Said

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• It was when I realized I needed to stop trying to be somebody else and be myself, that I actually started to own, accept and love what I had.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Trying, And Love, Accepting

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• Becoming an entrepreneur was the furthest thing from my mind. I actually had an identity crisis when I realized I had become one.

  Anne Taintor

  Entrepreneur, Mind, Identity

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• Anger at happenstance for its absurd timing. Anger at myself for being so angry. I hate being angry and every time I got this angry it made me more angry at the fact that I was so angry. I realized though that I couldn't really be mad at any of those things.

  David Bowick

  Hate, Mad, Facts

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• One day I realized, without God, nothing matters. So, I asked Him into my heart.

  Esther Earl

  Heart, One Day, Matter

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• As a kid, I was always sick. I had pneumonia, I had really severe allergies. And it wasn't until I got older, that I realized some of that was caused by toxins in things like detergent. That made me crazy, because it's supposed to help get things clean!

  Jessica Alba

  Crazy, Kids, Pneumonia

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• At some point in my life I realized I knew only celebrities, I didn't know any real people. I think it was a master stroke of Fate that in researching the greatest celebrity of them all, I would at last be meeting real people, finding them more extraordinary than celebrities; fascinated by them all and enjoying enduring friendships with some.

  Elaine Dundy

  Real, Fate, Thinking

  "Life Itself!". Book by Elaine Dundy, 2001.

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• One of the most startling discoveries of my career was when I realized that the strongest women in the world are not lesbians but heterosexual women, who know how to handle men.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Discovery, Careers

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.80, Vintage

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• I realized it might be possible to do such a thing, run for money, trot for wages on piece work at a bob a puff rising bit by bit to a guinea a gasp and retiring through old age at thirty-two because of lace-curtain lungs, a football heart, and legs like varicose beanstalks.

  Alan Sillitoe

  Football, Running, Heart

  Alan Sillitoe (2016). “New and Collected Stories”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• When you're 6 or 7, your father becomes this wonderful presence in your life. I really responded to my father. And then, the very moment I realized that I loved him unconditionally, that life was going to be great just because he was in it, he was gone.

  Tim Allen

  Father, Gone, Wonderful

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• Up until I came here this week, and I met so many women and young girls who feel, to use their word - and I'm a bit embarrassed, but it's a good word - empowered, by watching. I realized this isn't a burden, this is an honor.

  Lucy Lawless

  Girl, Honor, Use

  "Lucy Lawless is a Star on the Strength of 'Xena'". The Seattle Times, September 29, 1996.

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• I realized how valuable the art and practice of writing letters are, and how important it is to remind people of what a treasure letters--handwritten letters--can be. In our throwaway era of quick phone calls, faxes, and email, it's all to easy never to find the time to write letters. That's a great pity--for historians and the rest of us.

  Nancy Reagan

  Art, Writing, Phones

  Nancy Reagan (2001). “I Love You, Ronnie: The Letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan”, p.1, Random House

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• I was aware that you weren't supposed to write about suburbia, that it was undignified in some way, the subject matter not momentous enough. And so, for a long time, that kept me from writing about it. But once I began, I realized it was just as interesting as anywhere else.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Writing, Long, Interesting

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• I realized that the people I want to impress most are already in my band. If I just do my best and try to write great songs and then collaborate with these guys and try to make a great record, that's my best path to success.

  Ed Robertson

  Song, Writing, People

  Source: www.people.com

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• I have a very strong work ethic, and I'm very grateful for that. But I think there was a moment when I realized, "Oh, I can play a little as well."

  Carla Gugino

  Strong, Grateful, Thinking

  "A little white lie made Carla Gugino Troop Beverly Hills' tallest scout". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. June 17, 2015.

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• In terms of cooking with friends, I realized early on that all great meals seem to start and end in the kitchen, and the more you can get people engaged and hands-on, the better the memories will be. So when people come into your kitchen while you're cooking and prepping and politely ask, "Do you need any help?" the key is to say yes.

  Rick Tramonto

  Memories, Keys, Hands

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I moved on to the University of California, Berkley, coordinating interpreters for Deaf students at the university. The first year I was at Berkley, we brought in artists, performers, actors, and poets to create a Deaf arts festival. I did a lot of the interpreting for the stage performers. By the second year, I realized that I really liked producing arts festivals that had to do something with signing.

  Jack Jason

  Art, Years, California

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• I was trying to show colour, but I realized at the private view that the public were prisoners of a preconceived point of view and that, confronted with all these surfaces of different colours, they responded far more to the inter-relationship of the different propositions, they reconstituted the elements of a decorative polychromy.

  Yves Klein

  Views, Trying, Different

  "Yves Klein, 1928-1962". Book by Yves Klein, p. 30, 1974.

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• This was my first encounter with art as art (he saw 'Pinky' painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence and 'The Blue Boy" painted by Thomas Gainborough).. ..somebody actually MADE those paintings.. ..(it) was the first time I realized you could be an artist.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Art, Boys, Blue

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• When I came overseas, I realized that there are many ideologies and many trends, and it's also very hard to produce honest art and honest literature. I decided that I didn't want to follow any of these ideologies or trends, because that's also a kind of pressure that doesn't allow absolute freedom. So I decided that I was only going to produce works that were satisfactory to me, and that meant not following any trends and being anti-ideological.

  Gao Xingjian

  Art, Pressure, Literature

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