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  When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Death, Forgiveness

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• There is nothing better than playing a scene with John Cleese or Maggie Smith. It's electric. But I don't think I'm the sort of person who needs to have an outer ego in order to produce something. I realised that through the travel programmes.

  Michael Palin

  Thinking, Order, Ego

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• We can't any longer have the conventional understanding of genetics which everybody peddles because it is increasingly obvious that epigenetics - actually things which influence the genome's function - are much more important than we realised.

  Robert Winston

  Understanding, Important, Influence

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• When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like - full of cruelty and hypocrisy.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Hypocrisy, Parent, Adults

  "The Saturday interview: Vivienne Westwood" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2011.

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• The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable.

  Arsene Wenger

  Doe, Looks, World

  "ARSENE WENGER INTERVIEW: The full transcript of Martin Samuel's fascinating meeting with the Arsenal manager - part I". Interview with Martin Samuel, www.dailymail.co.uk. August 24, 2009.

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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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• 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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• I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Children, Reality, Persons

  "Benedict Cumberbatch interview: On the couch with Mr Cumberbatch". Interview with Emma John, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2011.

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• I've been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I've suddenly realised it is one of life's joys.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Clothes, Joy, Late

  "Benedict Cumberbatch interview: On the couch with Mr Cumberbatch". Interview with Emma John, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2011.

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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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• 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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• You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.

  Drew Barrymore

  Sorry, Imperfection, Parent

  "Drew Barrymore: 'I've lost count of the number of times I've cried over men'". www.mirror.co.uk. January 27, 2012.

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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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• 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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• I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.

  Jane Goodall

  Communication, Teaching, Writing

  "New mission for chimps' champion". Interview with Ros Coward, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2004.

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• When we turn around & come face to face with our destiny, we discover that words (spoken) are not enough. I know so many people who are brilliant speakers but are quite incapable of practising what they preach. It's one thing to describe a situation & quite another to experience it. I realised a long time ago that a warrior in search of his dream must take his inspiration from what he actually does & not from what he imagines himself doing.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Inspiration, Warrior

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• I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be. I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something , till I realised the person I was waiting for was myself.

  Markus Zusak

  Waiting, Standing There, Persons

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• Her absence had felt like torture--almost a form of personal punishment. He had nobody to discuss his feelings with, and for the first time he realised with appalling clarity what a destructive hold she had over him.

  Steig Larsson

  Punishment, Feelings, Firsts

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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 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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• Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.

  Dick Gregory

  People, Laughing, Very Good

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• I instinctively dress a bit tougher because I've spent a lot of time in the U.S. and I realised there was a certain image projected of me here. I've always been an absolute rebel. When I was in my teen years I had piercings and wore all black.

  Ellie Goulding

  Years, Black, Rebel

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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