Realising Quotes - Page 20

• Before getting meningitis, I was such a hypochondriac, worrying about the slightest ache. Ironically, I overlooked meningitis because the symptoms seemed like flu. I guess you don't realise how healthy you are until it is taken away from you.

  Petra Stunt

  Taken, Worry, Healthy

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• You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast and great and penetrating and bright and dark that it will put all other novels ever written to shame. And then, as you get towards the end, you begin to realise, no, it's just this book.

  Michael Cunningham

  Book, Dark, Fire

  "Michael Cunningham: A life in writing" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2011.

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• What you've got to realise is that footballers, and me in particular, have seen everything in the changing room. Everything. I've seen the manager kicking off with the players, the players kicking off with him, players fighting each other, managers fighting, everything.

  Ryan Giggs

  Fighting, Player, Kicking

  "Ryan Giggs: Nice guy finishes first" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2010.

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• I realise few people get to live the life they always wanted, but I'm so neurotic, I don't really think about it. I'm too busy thinking, 'I hope I don't screw up my next scene.

  Charlie Hunnam

  Live Life, Thinking, People

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• I didn't realise how important stupid people are in your life, because you ask yourself, what made stupid people so stupid? What made them the way they are?

  Simon Cowell

  Stupid, People, Important

  "Simon Cowell's Personal UK Make Up Artist Julia Carta Talks About Working With Simon". justsimoncowell.wordpress.com. September 20, 2013.

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• When you're doing some things that are damaging you, you don't really realise it at the time.

  Natasha Henstridge

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• I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story.

  John McGahern

  Book, Thinking, Differences

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• The closer you are to people, the more you realise what has happened to them.

  Jennifer Lynch

  People, Happened

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• It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be something you're not.

  Laura Marling

  Practice, Trying, No Point

  "My songs are not pretty" by Jude Rogers, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2008.

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• I realise that every time my face is on TV or I'm playing in a tournament, that I am a role model for a lot of people and a lot of kids do look up to me. I try to do my best in that regard and put myself across as honestly and as modestly as possible, as well.

  Rory McIlroy

  Kids, People, Role Models

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• When you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simple.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Simple, Medicine, Absolutes

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• I write something that I believe I've made up, and it's only when a friend later points it out to me that I realise I've been writing about myself again.

  Jo Nesbo

  Believe, Writing, Made

  "Jo Nesbø: 'If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he'd have written a thriller'". Interview with John Crace, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2012.

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• When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively.

  Chris Ofili

  Art, School, Thinking

  "A door to freedom" by Chris Ofili, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2009.

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• When we realise our oneness with our RULER, then the matter shall have no longer power over us, and we shall see it as the unreality it is.

  Annie Besant

  God, Oneness, Matter

  Annie Besant (1904). “A Study in Consciousness: A Contribution to the Science of Psychology”

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• As a kid, you get to the stage where you realise the gender barriers that exist in society and what you're supposed to do and not supposed to do.

  Andrej Pejic

  Kids, Gender, Stage

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• Bringing an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians may help the young Arab generation to realise their aspirations. Israel is more than willing to offer our experience in building a modern economy in spite of limited resources to the whole region.

  Shimon Peres

  Israel, Generations, Limited Resources

  "We in Israel welcome the Arab spring" by Shimon Peres, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2011.

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• I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you. More mythical reference points actually help, and you realize that's what myths are for. It's for human beings to process their experience in extremis.

  Michael Sheen

  Helping, Failing, Process

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

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• A lot of guys are very intimidated by an attractive woman, and they dehumanise her because our culture perceives beautiful women as commodities. But I think if you're able walk up to a person and get to know them, and you see their flaws and their impurities, and realise that they're like you, then you can humanise them again.

  Neil Strauss

  Beautiful, Thinking, Guy

  "Pick-up techniques - interview with Neil Strauss". Interview with Kirstin Innes, www.list.co.uk. January 31, 2008.

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• When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.

  Ryan Tedder

  Successful, People, Accidents

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• Dizzee's just my childhood hero. He's definitely the inspiration. He's got himself to a very good place. He's defied the expectations of what British black urban music was like. He was the first person who made the rest of Britain realise it wasn't just a one-album-type situation. You've got to take your hat off to somebody like that.

  Tinie Tempah

  Inspiration, Hero, Urban Music

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• One day Mum saved up for this exciting new thing - a frozen chicken. She cooked it on the Sunday and we all sat around waiting for it, but there was a terrible smell from the kitchen. She didn't realise that the giblets were in a plastic bag inside it. We just ate vegetables and she cried and cried.

  Carol Vorderman

  Sunday, Smell, Vegetables

  "Carol Vorderman: My family values". Interview with Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2011.

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• As you get older you realise your parents aren't these superheroes. They're actually people.

  Rumer Willis

  People, Superhero, Parent

  "Question time: Rumer Willis". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2009.

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• If someone realises the piece they are wearing is inspired by me then it only broadens my audience.

  Alexander Wang

  Pieces, Inspired, Audience

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• Work less than you think you should. It took me a while to realise there was a point each day when my creativity ran out and I was just producing words - usually lousy ones - for their own sake. And nap: it helps to refresh the brain, at least mine.

  Amy Waldman

  Creativity, Thinking, Naps

  "Paperback Q&A: Amy Waldman on The Submission". www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2012.

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• When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.

  Ben Marcus

  Writing, Emotional, Levels

  "Ben Marcus: 'Writing has to earn people's interest'". Interview with Killian Fox, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2012.

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