I Realized Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• I realized that the good stories were affecting the organs of my body in various ways, and the really good ones were stimulating more than one organ. An effective story grabs your gut, tightens your throat, makes your heart race and your lungs pump, brings tears to your eyes or an explosion of laughter to your lips.

  Christopher Vogler

  Laughter, Philosophy, Writing

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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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• I jumped horses over big dangerous fences in competition. And got very, very good at it, at quite a high level. And I realized long since that, yeah, it's the same thing that appeals to me about it. You can't think about anything else, in either case; jumping horses in competition, show jumping, or flying an airplane, for whatever purpose.

  James Lipton

  Horse, Airplane, Thinking

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

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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 realized that there wasn't accessible, user-friendly content out there that really empowered people to find a way into the green movement.

  Elizabeth Rogers

  People, Friendly, Way

  Source: www.elle.com

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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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• 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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• As soon as I began to talk to Dalai Lama, I realized that Chinese and Tibetans from his point of view are mostly the same. And as he pointed out during the recent disturbances, the Chinese are suffering under a tough government much as the Tibetans are.

  Pico Iyer

  Government, Views, Suffering

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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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 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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• 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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• I think there was a point that I realized I could do what I wanted to do in terms of the drawing. I used to run around a lot of things. I would shy away from certain things that I realized would be horrible for me to draw, and just wouldn't be fun.

  Daniel Clowes

  Running, Fun, Thinking

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. March 30, 2012.

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• At a certain point, I realized that I could draw anything, and there was nothing I should avoid - I could make it work. That's opened me up to being able to be much more comfortable telling any kind of story.

  Daniel Clowes

  Stories, Able, Kind

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. March 30, 2012.

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• When I found yoga, I realized that I can direct my own mind through my yoga practice and meditation. I can actually create my own mood. That was a huge awakening for me.

  MC Yogi

  Yoga, Practice, Meditation

  Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• One of my big milestones came when I turned forty and promised myself to stop worrying about all the things I thought I might do but never really would. I was very relieved when I realized that you can actually complete a project by dropping it. That's how I "completed" learning to cook and learning German, becoming a good skier, and a list of other things too long to recite!

  Arianna Huffington

  Long, Worry, Might

  "Arianna Huffington: Measuring Success Based on a Third Metric". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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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 think my children have presented one of the biggest lessons so far in my life. It was only when my kids were born that I realized just how much I'd been living my life worried about what everybody thought of me and, even more strangely, worried about what I imagined other people might be thinking about me.

  Grant Bowler

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

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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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• 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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• Long before I realized I was exploring something, that I was looking to develop something in myself, I was just naturally drawn to movies and entertainment and stories that had a core element of spiritual discovery.

  Barnet Bain

  Spiritual, Discovery, Long

  "Eckhart Tolle & Barnet Bain on Bringing Mindfulness to the Movies". ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Right when I started getting solid was when I was offered a lot of writing work. And when The Ben Stiller Show was picked up, I realized there was no way for me to do stand-up three or four nights a week and run this television show with Ben. So that was the moment when I had to make a choice.

  Judd Apatow

  Running, Writing, Night

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2011.

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• My friend asked me recently, "Do you find it weird that you are now the property of other people's imaginations?" I hadn't thought about that before, this passionate following, with fan fiction and artwork. At first it felt like an invasion of privacy, but then I realized it's nice that the character can be shared.

  Alycia Debnam Carey

  Nice, Character, Imagination

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I realized that a tree never says, "I have too many branches." It simply digs deeper roots, expands itself to catch more light, and extends itself in multiple directions so as not to be unevenly weighted.

  Brenda Strong

  Light, Roots, Tree

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• I wrote four novels, but then I realized that the world didn't need me to be a novelist, but the world could use me as a nonfiction writer.

  David Quammen

  Novelists, Needs, Use

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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