Realised Quotes

• It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realized I'd become an actor.

  James D'arcy

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• I realized I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run.

  David Rudisha

  Running, Dad, Father

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• I realised that if you get yourself labeled as the funny one, people don't look any further. I've used that as I've got older. It's controlling: I decide what part of my personality you're seeing. I don't want you to look at me, I really don't. I don't want you to comment on my clothes, my hair or the way I look.

  Catherine Tate

  Clothes, Hair, People

  "Catherine the Great" by Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2006.

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• I realized this weak that I just cannot do it all. So I will choose to do what i can, fabulously.

  Clinton Kelly

  Inspirational, New Year, Choices

  FaceBook post by Clinton Kelly from Aug 26, 2013

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  The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Self

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• What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.

  Sharon Creech

  Courage, Fear, People

  Sharon Creech (2009). “Walk Two Moons”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humorous, Thinking

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• At the end of the day, life's about realising one's human potential. I don't know if I've realised mine, but I've certainly gone a long way towards realising some goals and some dreams.

  Linton Kwesi Johnson

  Dream, Long, Goal

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• I think I have changed a lot. People might feel a little unfamiliar with the new me, but this is just who I am. I realised that I just want to be free.

  Taeyang

  Thinking, Who I Am, People

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• Good people are seldom fully recognised during their lifetimes, and here, there are serious problems of corruption. One day it will be realised that my findings should have been acknowledged. It was difficult, but she always smiled when asked why she went on when recognition eluded her in her own country.

  Alice Stewart

  Country, Science, Should Have

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• So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.

  John Newcombe

  Fire, Negative, Way

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• I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I'd played golf I would have been skint.

  Alan Hansen

  Golf, Wanted, Ifs

  Interview with Nick Harper, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2004.

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• Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with someone who is peculiar, gifted, strange or alien? It's odd because there's a little part of me that wants to write about exotic, strange bizarre subjects. Instead, I've rather reluctantly realised that what I write about is families.

  Mark Haddon

  Writing, Oddities, People

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• The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at the Prado in Madrid. I still find myself returning there every time I'm in the city.

  Carolina Herrera

  Garden, Years, Cities

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• I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Art, Fun, Interesting

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• The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.

  Henri Nouwen

  Love, Teaching, Journey

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming”, p.14, Image

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• I realised how paranoid and guarded and not trusting - walled-in - I had become. Not consciously so, but just this armour that I kind of have, protective armour. It's not for my friends or family, but for being.outside in the world, always on guard.

  Jennifer Aniston

  World, Kind, Paranoid

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• I realised that there's a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Film, Found, Very Inspiring

  "Kathryn Bigelow: Director with a different take" by William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2009.

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• When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?

  Chaz Bono

  Transition, Transgender, Rejected

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• The first time I realised I was patriotic was after September 11th.

  Claire Danes

  Patriotic, Firsts, September

  Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2012.

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• You need a stubborn belief in an idea in order to see it realised.

  James Dyson

  Order, Ideas, Needs

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• When I wrote 'Dear Fatty,' I realised that sitting and writing alone is an absolute joy.

  Dawn French

  Writing, Joy, Sitting

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• Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Proportion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.

  Namie Amuro

  Mother, Children, Grief

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