I Realized Quotes - Page 16

• I realized that my family was more important to me than downtown night life.

  Guy Lafleur

  Night, Important, Downtown

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• I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.

  John Lasseter

  Careers, People, Cartoon

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• My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.

  Ang Lee

  Couple, Firsts, Stories

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• I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I wasn't a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Kids, Remember, Life Experience

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• I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Passion, People, Twins

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• I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter.

  Steve Martin

  Laughter, Real, Laughing

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• I really wanted to be a doctor, until my freshman year of college when I realized that while I was good at chemistry and biology, I really wasn't feeling challenged by it.

  Marissa Mayer

  College, Doctors, Years

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• I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn't want to sacrifice the ladies!

  James McAvoy

  Travel, Selfish, Sacrifice

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• I realized that my truest passion was for helping people change through faith in a higher power. That meant, for me, belonging to the church. Using my abilities to bring Christian doctrine to a postmodern world.

  James McGreevey

  Change, Christian, Passion

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• I realized that I had screwed up my life living different parts of my life in different places. I wasn't whole. I wasn't integrated. I wasn't a complete person. And after that, came out, spent some time at a psychiatric hospital.

  James McGreevey

  Different, Life Living, Integrated

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• In a way, 'Sin City''s designed to be paced somewhere between an American comic book and Japanese manga. Working in black and white, I realized that the eye is less patient, and you have to make your point, and sometimes repeat it. Slowing things down is harder in black and white, because there isn't as much for the eye to enjoy.

  Frank Miller

  Book, Eye, Black And White

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• Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it.

  Alanis Morissette

  Self, Mind, Belief

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• The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed.

  Kate Moss

  House, Firsts, First Time

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

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• Then finally I said, 'Okay, well, I want to know all the details. I want creative input. I want to be consulted. I want to know what they're doing and who's involved. And I want to see the space.' So they took me to see it, and then I realized it was major! All these red flags on the Rue de Rivoli with my name on them right by the Louvre!

  Kate Moss

  Names, Red Flags, Space

  "Kate Moss Muses on 20 Years at the Top". Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 2, 2010.

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• I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a parallel thing in me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Writing, Wanted

  "What Haruki Murakami talks about". Interview with Heidi Benson, www.sfgate.com. October 26, 2008.

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• I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to point. I thought, "Oh! Everything has a point, and if it doesn't, then there's a point to it".

  Harry Nilsson

  House, Tree, Branches

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

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• I've been doing a hybrid of investing and entrepreneurship, which I think initially I wasn't set out to do. But I realized it fit my personality.

  Sean Parker

  Thinking, Personality, Investing

  "Internet pioneer Sean Parker: 'I'm blazing a new path'". Interview with Dan Simon, www.cnn.com. September 27, 2011.

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• I grew up with the religion of 'Star Wars,' frankly. That's when I realized there is something bigger out there... and it's called The Force.

  Trey Parker

  Stars, War, Bigger

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• Five years after Aerosmith got back together, I realized how fragile we are as humans. There was a time I thought we were bulletproof, but then things happened and I came to the realization that I had to play every gig as if it was my last show. You have to start thinking that way, because you never know what's going to happen next.

  Joe Perry

  Thinking, Years, Play

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• I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humor, Fifty

  "E=MO²". Comedy Album, 1985.

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• I realized what Led Zeppelin was about around the end of our first U.S. tour. We started off not even on the bill in Denver, and by the time we got to New York we were second to Iron Butterfly, and they didn't want to go on!

  Robert Plant

  New York, Butterfly, Iron

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• I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.

  Richard Pryor

  Movie, Missing, Being Thankful

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• I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mother, Life Lesson, Men

  Anna Quindlen (2003). “Object Lessons: One True Thing ; Black and Blue”

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• My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Bob, Ballads, Dylan

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• I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.

  Ishmael Reed

  Discipline, Honor, Racist

  Ishmael Reed (1978). “Shrovetide in old New Orleans”, Doubleday Books

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