Realising Quotes - Page 29

• I get up to 400 letters a week, so I have a full-time PA, but I try to answer everything. People don't seem to realise that if they send something living in the post it's going to die on the way. Especially when you wrap it in a polythene bag.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  People, Trying, Way

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I didn't grow up imagining myself as an opera composer. Only once in my entire adolescence did I attend an opera. I went and saw Aida at the old Met, didn't understand a thing about it, and thought it was pretty awful. But I think I had it in my genes without even realising it.

  John Adams

  Growing Up, Thinking, Opera

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• Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people`s plates.

  Francis Bacon

  Artist, Ideas, People

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• The sight of Imran [Khan] tearing fearsomely down the hill and the baying of the crowd made me realise for the first time that adrenalin was sometimes brown

  Simon Hughes

  Sight, Crowds, Firsts

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• Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced.

  David Mitchell

  Travel, Loneliness, Thinking

  "Finding the route of inspiration". Interview with Carl Wilkinson, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2005.

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• I didn't realise that Ridley Scott has never won an Academy Award.

  Denzel Washington

  Awards, Academy Awards, Academy

  Source: www.getfrank.co.nz

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• I think it's important to realise that what happens in Neo-Platonism beginning with Plotinus and Porphyry and then going on for the next several centuries, is a real kind of contest for the ideas and convictions of the intelligentsia of the later Roman Empire. So that you have Christians slowly converting more and more powerful people until of course actually Constantine and then other emperors after him, become Christian, and the empire becomes a Christian empire rather than Pagan empire.

  Peter Adamson

  Christian, Powerful, Real

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• When you are around people who have money, you realise money isn't that impressive, it's about your class, morals and how you conduct yourself.

  Anthony Joshua

  Class, People, Moral

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.

  Quentin Crisp

  Availability, America, Giving

  Source: davidbenson.webs.com

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• When I was young, I wanted to find the Great Dark Man. When I said that I realise now that people thought that by 'dark' I meant black, and that by 'great' I meant big. Whereas I only meant a strong, mysterious person; someone who would 'take me away from all this.'

  Quentin Crisp

  Strong, Dark, Men

  Source: davidbenson.webs.com

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• Sometimes in peacekeeping operations you show force in order not to use force - people realise that there's a pushback and there's a solid force there that's not going to be pushed around, that sometimes helps.

  Kofi Annan

  Order, People, Use

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• Certain social situations make me feel like a square peg in a round hole. Realising you can connect to the human race through song makes me feel less alien.

  Lindi Ortega

  Song, Squares, Race

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• Sometimes, you just have to take a step back and realise what's important in your life, what you can live with, and more importantly, what you can't live without.

  Lauren Conrad

  Important, Steps, Sometimes

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• If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.

  Samantha Bond

  Middle, Pops, Sensational

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• I'm happy that my films were discovered by chance by foreign film festivals. That makes me realise more that there is a world outside Japan too. For me, it's an occasion to meet many people and to experience directly the response of international audiences to my films. But for me as a director, my attitude towards making films hasn't changed with the fame. I feel it's not good to change as a person anyway

  Takashi Miike

  Attitude, Japan, People

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

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• It took me so long to get to the music, where that was what I wanted to do all my life. It took me so long to realise that it wasn't really movies that I wanted to do, but to be on stage singing.

  Lou Doillon

  Long, Singing, Stage

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• I think sometimes when people get older they start to limit themselves and think that if they wanted to start singing or they wanted to start playing guitar or if they wanted to, I don't know...become an archeologist - whatever it is, they think they just can't do it anymore because they've hit a certain age and I just think that's like putting yourself in jail. I realised a couple of years ago that the more that I did and made things and created things that I could love; it helped me to realise that I was actually loving myself and what came out of me.

  Theresa Wayman

  Couple, Thinking, Guitar

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• And believe me, darling, there's no man more faithful than a reformed playboy. They make far better husbands than men who haven't had time to sow their wild oats before they marry, so go off the rails at about forty-five because they suddenly realise that they've missed out on life and if they don't hurry up it's going to be too late.

  Sally Wentworth

  Husband, Believe, Men

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• Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna; they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense.

  Brian Eno

  Teacher, Students, Antenna

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• When you are 18, 19 or 20 you can get away with more, but as you get into your twenties you realise that it is harder and harder to lose what you put on. Look at Ricky Hatton. That isn't good for you and so you know not to come back overweight or out of shape. Why? Because you'll get stick from fellow players and you'll struggle.

  Colin Kazim-Richards

  Struggle, Player, Sticks

  "Football Pre-Season Training". Interview with Leo Moynihan, uk.askmen.com.

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• Sometimes, opening up your eyes and realising what you have - no matter how little you think - helps you find yourself.

  Hillary Clinton

  Eye, Thinking, Opening Up

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• Don't let life pass you by before you realise that it was worth living.

  Hillary Clinton

  Worth Living

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• Let the world know your dreams, my friend; realise them!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dream, World, My Friends

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• Man must spend much more time in extraordinary natural places to grasp much better how remarkable our planet is and to realise what a great privilege and what an enormous joy to be living here!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Joy, Privilege

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• Realise well, proud little man that even the highest clouds don't shine! For above all things there lie brightest stars.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Stars, Lying, Men

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