Realising Quotes - Page 19

• You realise Group Captain that this might be the most important weather forecast in history?

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Weather, History, Historical

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• Only if we realise how sh*t we were at Blackburn can we improve.

  Paolo Di Canio

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.

  Dani Shapiro

  Running, Haunting, Theme

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• Understand why you are different and how you help, recognise your target market, and give them something they might not even realise they are missing.

  Chris Murray

  Giving, Missing, Different

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• But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.

  Adam Duritz

  People, Records, Lasts

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• In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

  Kate Morton

  Retrospect, Becoming, Seems

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• Well, I don't ever get excited. I haven't been excited since I got a Chopper bicycle when I was about 12. Once you get older you realise there's always a catch to everything. So when I get, say, a commission to make a TV show, the catch is that you have to deliver something and then the sense of responsibility overwhelms the joy of the occasion.

  Jack Dee

  Responsibility, Tv Shows, Joy

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• I think I'm realising more and more that I've got a job to do and I can't be doing the big nights out and working to my full potential the next day. I feel much better for it.

  Johnny Vegas

  Jobs, Night, Thinking

  "Johnny Vegas: Boozy comic sheds six stone as he tries to clean up his act" by Beth Neil, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2009.

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• Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.

  Max Weber

  Writing, Achievement, Pieces

  Max Weber, David S. Owen (2004). “The Vocation Lectures”, p.55, Hackett Publishing

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• One of the things that is devastating is I realise I haven't been living a different life than when I was, like, 12. I'm shocked at how reclusive I've been since then. I was unaware of it until recently.

  Gus Van Sant

  Different, Havens, Shocked

  "All the world's an art school" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2004.

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• The great European dream was to diminish militant nationalism. We would all be happy Europeans together. But we are going to see the old monster of militant nationalism being awoken when people realise how little control their politicians have.

  Antony Beevor

  Dream, People, Together

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• The Conservatives must realise that being sceptical is different from being phobic in what is an interdependent world.

  John Bercow

  Different, World

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• I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.

  Abbie Cornish

  Children, Thinking, Dysfunction

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• I have always loved 'Stig of the Dump.' I think reading that book made me officially realise that I was a reader.

  Eoin Colfer

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  "Quickfire interview: Eoin Colfer on Doctor Who". The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. January 8, 2013.

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• I used to draw stickmen with star glasses when I was at school. I didn't realise that would end up being me! The whole idea was that the glasses had mirrors, and if a youngster looked at me, they'd see themselves. Everybody is a star.

  Bootsy Collins

  Stars, School, Glasses

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• One day you look out and the audience consists of 65,000 people. It's like looking in the mirror and one day you realise you've gone grey.

  Patrick Carney

  Mirrors, People, One Day

  "'We've put in more hours than anyone': The Black Keys interviewed" by Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2011.

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• I was using Twitter a lot on my phone, and was realising there was a massive gap between the link on the tweet and the full story. If you could come up with a summary layer to show in Twitter, that would be awesome.

  Nick D'Aloisio

  Phones, Gaps, Would Be

  "Summly creator Nick D'Aloisio: 'I try to maintain a level of humbleness'". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2013.

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• When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is.

  Helen Dunmore

  Doubt, Young

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• When people say to me don't the years go fast I have to be honest and say that whereas I don't realise where they go in the long term, I pack so much into a year it seems to take forever.

  Paul Daniels

  Years, Long, People

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• My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all.

  Alice Eve

  Dad, Character, Thinking

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• So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!

  Cee Lo Green

  Growing Up, Band, World

  "Cee Lo Green: 'I've been such an oddball my whole life'". Interview with Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2010.

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• There was a time when I didn't like myself at all. I thought I was a cruel joke. But now I've come to realise that maybe I am not cute, but I am beautiful.

  Cee Lo Green

  Cute, Beautiful, Jokes

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. June 24, 2011.

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• People are much more interesting than people realise.

  Peter Ackroyd

  People, Interesting

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• Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.

  David Benioff

  Hero, Dies

  Interview with Ed Cumming, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 10, 2012.

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• I do realise how incredibly lucky I am.

  Hugh Bonneville

  Lucky

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