Realised Quotes - Page 9

• I don’t distinguish between magic and art. When I got into magic, I realised I had been doing it all along, ever since I wrote my first pathetic story or poem when I was twelve or whatever. This has all been my magic, my way of dealing with it.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Magic, Twelve

  Interview with Matthew De Abaitua, www.harrybravado.com. October 1, 2011.

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• I've realised I need a gnawing, nagging, anxious doubt when I wake at 4 A.M.

  Catherine Tate

  Doubt, Needs, Nagging

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• I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, it's all I wanted to do and I thought that anything else would somehow be a compromise to my dreams. But then when I came back to the States, I realised how much I loved being back in the States...

  Danica Patrick

  Dream, England, Compromise

  "Daytona 500: Racing superstar Danica Patrick commits career to America’s NASCAR". Interview with Rachel Ray, www.telegraph.co.uk. February 26, 2012.

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• Even when I was a child, I always wanted to be older. I realised just in time that it's a mistake and to enjoy my youth while I had it.

  Mark Gatiss

  Children, Mistake, Youth

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• Judging other people is such a natural and reflex phenomenon that even when somebody advises everybody not to judge anybody, actually he never realised that he has already judged that people judge others.

  Anuj

  People, Judging, Natural

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• When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.

  Maj Sjowall

  Summer, Mother, Children

  "The queen of crime" by Louise France, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2009.

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• At 15, 16, you think you're going to be captain of England. But I realised it wasn't going to happen for me on a windy November night in Darlington, coming to my peak at the age of 23 but still playing for Mansfield Town.

  Aidy Boothroyd

  Soccer, Football, Night

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• Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being; and a society is civilised to the extent to which it makes this possible. Terrorism, which aims at putting out thespiritual light, is the antithesis of civilisation.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Light, Achievement, Society

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• When I realised I had a facility for humour, I latched on to it, and it gave me confidence and I built my personality around it. So I subconsciously made myself become the funny one so that would be my label rather than the ginger one or the red-faced one.

  Catherine Tate

  Personality, Red, Would Be

  "What I'm not is a cheery person". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.

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• I've realised that nobody's going to die if I don't get it right and that there are a number of things out there, beyond acting, that are very interesting and fulfilling.

  Matthew Rhys

  Numbers, Interesting, Acting

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• I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

  Dakota Fanning

  Player, Grandparent, Tennis

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• My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.

  Antonia Thomas

  Father, Musical, Theatre

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Everything is entertainment; criticism is now entertainment and it seems that the French directors have woken up one day and suddenly realised that they were not backed up any more.

  Wim Wenders

  Criticism, One Day, Entertainment

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• I had a moment where I realised I could do silly voices, that lots of people I knew couldn't do silly voices, and that thus I must be able to make money doing silly voices.

  Rob Brydon

  Silly, Voice, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I know some players like being the centre of attention and I admit that when I first became a player I liked fame, too. But that feeling lasted only for three months. Then I realised what it was really like to be the centre of attention all the time. It isn't all good.

  Mario Balotelli

  Player, Feelings, Three

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• I realised that the political context had got worse since the 2010 World Cup. I tried to ignore it but I wanted, as a national coach - you may call this Utopia - to make Catalans and Basques feel good about supporting a Spanish side... to unite even the most sectarian and nationalist.

  Vicente del Bosque

  Feel Good, Political, May

  "Vicente del Bosque: Putting regional tensions aside has united Spain" by Jimmy Burns, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2012.

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• My family are very, very religious in Texas. They're Southern Baptists. I left to go to New York when I was 17 and I realised I wasn't Southern Baptist. That's not how I am inclined.

  Lynn Collins

  Religious, New York, Texas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• This truth of the gathering together of God's children is in Scripture seen realised in various localities, and in each central locality the Christians resident therein composed but one body: Scripture is perfectly clear on that head.

  John Nelson Darby

  Christian, Children, Together

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• I've realised that at the top of the mountain, there's another mountain.

  Andrew Garfield

  Mountain

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• I've never really been star struck. I was a little bit taken aback when I was doing a chat show recently and I was sat in the make-up chair chatting to a guy say next to me but I couldn't look round and see who it was, it was only when I got up I realised it had been Bryan Adams I'd been talking to!

  Richard Fleeshman

  Stars, Taken, Talking

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• When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and realised that not all films had the giant crab monsters in them, it really opened up a lot of things for me.

  Jim Jarmusch

  New York, Ohio, Monsters

  Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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• I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.

  Nicole Krauss

  Reality, Important, Fictional Stories

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• Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.

  Diane Keaton

  Stars, Writing, Men

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• Just having the camera, being able to pull back from situations and be an observer, it saved my life... I realised I could find these intimate moments and that people trusted me. That, basically, my camera was magic.

  Ryan McGinley

  Intimate Moments, People, Magic

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• We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed.

  Nursultan Nazarbayev

  Priorities, World, Contradiction

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