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• It's so sad, you get less starstruck when you start realizing that it's not a big deal.

  Ansel Elgort

  Bigs, So Sad, Deals

  Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 5, 2014.

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• The less you offer, the more readers are forced to bring the world to life with their own visual imaginings. I personally hate an illustration of a character on a jacket of a book. I never want to have someone show me what the character really looks like - or what some artist has decided the character really looks like - because it always looks wrong to me. I realize that I prefer to kind of meet the text halfway and offer a lot of visual collaborations from my own imaginative response to the sentences.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Hate, Book, Character

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2007.

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• I don't think '90s music was as significant as '60s music in terms of changing the world, but it was significant, and I think it was similarly disillusioning when you realize the mainstream just views it as like a curiosity.

  Billy Corgan

  Thinking, World, Significant

  Interview with Marc Hawthorne, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2005.

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• Sometimes I'll dream that I saw a show and then I'll wake up in the morning and realize that I didn't see the show, that it was my dream. And I just remember what the paintings look like in the dream and I think, "Oh, nobody painted those. I can do that."

  Julian Schnabel

  Dream, Morning, Thinking

  Interview with Mark Grotjahn, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 11, 2013.

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• I love music and listen to music all the time, but I didn't realize how much my body needed music. I needed it more than sex.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Sex, Body, Music Love

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You realize how much fun we did have, with no money at all. We'd stay in peoples' homes in Tangiers. When you're young, you invite yourself.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Fun, Home, Tangier

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal and a bad deed, one is able to realize freedom.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Sorrow, Deeds

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• I'm a sci-fi fan, and I guess you have to let go of some of that at some point, and realize that as long as you're focused on telling a story that you care about, at the end of the day, that's what really matters, even to hard-core sci-fi fans.

  Rian Johnson

  Letting Go, Long, The End Of The Day

  "Rian Johnson’s Feedback Loop". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 27, 2012.

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• I've been acting my whole life, which people don't realize. I just haven't had the opportunities that I've had with my dancing.

  Julianne Hough

  Opportunity, People, Dancing

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 30, 2012.

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• I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before.

  Danger Mouse

  Long, Shame, Enough

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You can publish a poem you think is a very important poem, and you don't hear a word from anyone. [...] You can publish a book of poetry by dropping it off a cliff and waiting to hear an echo. Quite often, you'll never hear a thing. So doing that, using older work, puts it in a context, and that sort of forces the reader to realize what its importance is-if it has any. Everything needs a context. You're not going to recognize a poet unless you have a context.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Book, Thinking, Echoes

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 1, 2012.

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• You've got to be oblivious to other people, the push and pull of other people's opinions, the way other people measure success. It's then that you realize you are 100 percent who you are and you have to use that who-you-are 100 percent in order to create great things.

  Damien Hirst

  Order, People, Use

  Interview with Anthony Haden-Guest, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• If you take a big epic novel and you shoot it, when you get to the editing room you notice that it has 2 million climaxes, which fill the whole 90 or 100 minutes. Then you realize you can't cut them out because if somebody is dying and you cut that out it seems like they just disappear from the film.

  Pirjo Honkasalo

  Cutting, Epic, Editing

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think that what happened is that we grew up with the Holocaust within us. It turned us into harsh, emotionally incapable people who have become blind to what they are doing to other people. A lot of times, Holocaust abuse justifies terrible things done to the Palestinians. And you have to realize that what is going on is terrible, and that we are responsible, and we have to take responsibility - even if we are not completely responsible.

  Eytan Fox

  Responsibility, Thinking, People

  "Exploring Masculinity and Modern Views of Israeli’s, Eytan Fox Discusses 'Walk on Water'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. March 3, 2005.

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• Our natural thing to do when we break away from our parents and our family is to decide in how many ways they were wrong and bad, and the older you get you start to realize, "By 'bad' I mean 'different'" and then you get a little bit older and you think, "And by 'different' I mean 'pretty awesome but just not like me.'"

  Kelli O'Hara

  Mean, Thinking, Parent

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If we don't preserve forest habitat for spotted owls, then soon we won't have trees to refresh the air we breathe. And we're realizing that this applies to social ecology, as well.

  Sam Keen

  Air, Tree, Owl

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• The spiritual mind is always metaphorical. Spiritual thinking is poetic thinking. It's always trying to put a very diaphanous experience into words, realizing all the while that words are inadequate.

  Sam Keen

  Spiritual, Thinking, Always Trying

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• Every time I come across a rattlesnake on my farm I initially react in fear and am tempted to kill it. Then I realize I wouldn't want to live in a world where all wild things - without and within - are domesticated.

  Sam Keen

  World, Want, Rattlesnakes

  Source: www.spiritualityandpractice.com

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• I always feel bad for those who, in a sense, cede their authority to others, let others make major decisions about their life and actually believe them. When you're tiny, you have no choice. But as soon as your mind starts working, you pretty well figure it out. And you realize you're a hostage until you're old enough to leave. But as long as you have that goal - I will get out of here - you'll be OK.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Believe, Goal, Long

  "Joe Wenke Interviews: Rita Mae Brown on being a Lambda Literary Pioneer". booktrib.com. May 31, 2015.

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• I wanted to give people the ability once again to realize that they can still dream, but it has to be a new American dream that's based in honesty, integrity, and security - a dream that allows you to sleep at night, a dream that is attainable and allows you to stand in your truth.

  Suze Orman

  Dream, Honesty, Integrity

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• I had tried, as I thought as a nun, to open myself to God and God seemed totally uninterested in me. The heavens remained closed and opaque. I now realize, of course, that I had a very, very inadequate idea of God. I was expecting clouds to part, a little sort of whisper in my ear, and of course, that's not what God is. God is not another being; we are talking about something much more profound.

  Karen Armstrong

  Ideas, Clouds, Talking

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• Religions have found that if you behave in a certain way, if you sort of perform certain rituals that expand your mind and make you realize that will make you realize and help you to seguey into transcendence and perform certain acts, adopt a certain lifestyle, you develop new capacities of mind and heart, just like the dancer, or the athlete that make you into a whole human being and principle after one of these disciplines right across the board in all of the faiths is compassion, the ability to feel with the other person.

  Karen Armstrong

  Athlete, Heart, Compassion

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• If the poem is so moving that even if you have no experience in that particular setting be it 1920's Harlem let's say. You still are so moved that you can put yourself in that position. That means that the writer has managed to go beyond the personal and touch the humanity in all of us and it's really a blast to read it because I realize how that this does hold true for the truly great poems.

  Rita Dove

  Moving, Mean, Humanity

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 19, 2009.

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• Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you "sell" only to people of a certain age, you get cut off from the main body of experience. The power of couple dancing and courtship, it's elegant, and you wouldn't realize America was once a nation of dancers and singers today. People of all races could dance and sing.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Couple, Cutting, America

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• After a year's research, one realizes that it could have been done in a week.

  William Henry Bragg

  Years, Done, Research

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