Realising Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny.

  Denise Mina

  Writing, Political, Stories

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• Things are so busy and so quick, and there’s so much going on, you have to realise the time when you have to take a step back, take a breath and really think back to where you come from. I’m from a very, very rural place. There’s really nobody out there, just roads and farms. I had a long transition to get to where I am now. I moved away when I was young, when I was about 19. I’d literally come from an area with dirt roads and stuff like that, right to the centre of a city of about five million people. It’s been great. I’m based in New York and every day it's amazing.

  Diego Klattenhoff

  New York, Thinking, Cities

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• Is there anything more useless than a crouton? I sometimes wake up in the small hours with a start and realise that what's roused me is an overpowering urge to visit violence on its originator.

  Will Self

  Wake Up, Useless, Violence

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• If an American is motoring on his own, he (the paragon of morality and chastity) will slow down and stop beside every solitary pretty female pedestrian, bare his teeth in a big smile, and tempt her into his car with a wild roll of the eyes. A lady who fails to appreciate his passion will qualify as an idiot who doesn't realise how lucky she is to have the opportunity of getting to know the owner of this 100-horse-power motor car.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Horse, Passion, Eye

  Vladimir Mayakovsky (2005). “My Discovery of America”

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• Sometimes you look back at girls you spent money on rather than send it to your mum and you realise witchcraft is real

  Robert Mugabe

  Girl, Real, Looks

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• If you lose emotion, and you gain it back, you realise that hate and love are very important to distribute properly. So I'm not going to waste any kind of emotion on things that aren't related to me.

  Marilyn Manson

  Hate, Important, And Love

  "The life and loves of a he-devil" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2007.

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• It's like your whole life you 've been falling toward the earth, until the moment someone catches you. And you realise that somehow you 've caught her at the same time. And together, instead of falling, you might be able to fly.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Fall, Together, Earth

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• It was good to be a kid because I did not realise all the things that came with the success. Going to the Games, I was asked what I expected to do.

  Nadia Comaneci

  Kids, Games, Expected

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• As you get older you realise that nothing lasts forever. It's not depressing, but it does make moments more intense.

  Victoria Legrand

  Depressing, Forever, Doe

  "Beach House and the curse of the big time". Interview with Sian Rowe, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.

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