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• I worked in an insurance office for six years, and it was there that I just woke up one day and realised there was something massively lacking in my life, and a non-contributory pension and a subsidised canteen could not fill it.

  Jamie Sives

  Years, Office, One Day

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• Dangling in space I realised I could always slip out of the harness. I looked forward to the peace of the great release.

  Douglas Mawson

  Adventure, Space, Harness

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• I realised that reading was the key that opened the door to secret lands, strange places and the worlds behind other people's eyes.

  Ramona Koval

  Education, Reading, Learning

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• The moment I realised that my history was an excuse for nothing, was the moment I was freed from my history. The great danger of history is that we use it as an excuse and remain trapped in it. I cannot blame my history for anything, and therefore I have to have high standards for myself.

  Stefan Molyneux

  High Standards, Use, Blame

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• It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dog, Artist, Tragedy

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.824, GENERAL PRESS

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• My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Writing, Touring, Enjoy

  "The grunge girl grows up" by Priya Elan, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2008.

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• The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless.

  Ernst Mach

  Mean, Perfect, Tasks

  Ernst Mach (1959). “The Analysis of Sensations: And the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical”

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• As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.

  Jenny Eclair

  Years, Berlin, England

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• When I was about 13 I realised girls weren't going to kiss me because I was a gigantic, weird looking creature from the depths. I was like 6 ft. aged 11.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Girl, Kissing, Depth

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have become a bit obsessed with eyebrows, I used to never have any and then I realised big eyebrows are good and now I'm an eyebrow fiend. Everyone comes to me to get their eyebrows done.

  Jessie J

  Eyebrows, Done, Obsessed

  "EXCLUSIVE! Jessie J: 'If I wasn't a singer I'd probably do make-up'". Interview with Rebecca Cox, www.glamourmagazine.co.uk. July 5, 2013.

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• I realised that I had a choice to either feel angry about not having arms and legs, or thankful for having my family, friends and my little foot.

  Nick Vujicic

  Feet, Choices, Legs

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• When I turned 30, I realised the value of time and with it, the other important things in life. Thats when I did up my house, started spending time with my family and friends and did all that a normal girl would do. All these things I was balancing with my work.

  Rani Mukerji

  Girl, Things In Life, House

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• On the contrary Deepika feels inferior to other people I was surprised when I realised it. She is straightforward & very giving

  Imtiaz Ali

  People, Giving, Straightforward

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• Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.

  Peter Weir

  Ties, Arbitrary, Length

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

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• I was composing before I realised I was a composer. It came more or less naturally. There were a couple of old ladies lived next door to me, and I frequented their house more than I did my own, because it had all those marvellous things in that that old ladies do have. And they had a piano, and I used to play around with that; they showed me how to read music and I used to play to them.

  Richard Meale

  Couple, Doors, Play

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• It never occurred to me that there was anything odd about writing my own music, and so I used to just jot down little ditties and things like that. And it was only in later years I suppose when I was about nine or so, that I realised there was this thing called composing.

  Richard Meale

  Writing, Years, Littles

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I can't even begin to describe how I miss him. He always supported me in everything I did. He was a very wise man and I realised at an early age I could learn a lot from him. He always gave me the right answer. But above all he was a very easy-going guy and all he wanted was to be my best friend. I'm an only child and so he shared everything with me. Of course he was very young to die and I was very young to lose a father. But there was nothing left unsaid between us.

  Dhani Harrison

  Wise, Children, Father

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• Once I grew up and realised 'What am I doing?' I started re-listening to the music I was playing and I realised there was so much finesse - it was dynamic and simple but I wanted to be authentic to the original songs.

  Eric Hernandez

  Song, Simple, Listening

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• I tried to find a way out in many ways, but it all caught up with me. Once I realised I could sing and write songs, it was just so much easier to do than anything else!

  Martha Wainwright

  Song, Writing, Way

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• Someone once pulled me aside and said it was all right to succeed, and I realised that I knew what failure felt like, but I didn't know what success felt like. I've carried that with me ever since.

  Nick Frost

  Succeed, Said, Knows

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• I realised that since I was a child I wanted to be an actress just to dress up in big fabrics and corsets and have adventures riding horses with lots of blood and action!

  Clemence Poesy

  Horse, Children, Adventure

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• I realised that the question I had asked myself while writing this book [Swimming Home] was (as surgeons say) very close to the bone: 'What do we do with knowledge that we cannot bear to live with? What do we do with the things we do not want to know?'

  Deborah Levy

  Book, Home, Writing

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• When I was 18 and not sure whether I wanted to be an actor, I realised that a playwright has no voice without an actor. That's my reason for acting: to get that character as right as possible for my writer. And I have never changed my philosophy.

  David Suchet

  Philosophy, Character, Voice

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• The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.

  W. H. Auden

  Ideas, Catholic, Religion

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• In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.

  Rowan Williams

  Love, Way, Creation

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