I Realized Quotes - Page 28

• I ended up at fifty, over-the-hill, thinking I had no future. Finally, I realized that I had allowed myself to write less than I could. ... As writers true to ourselves, it will always be hard, and if we're good, we'll always be in trouble. Let's be sure we deserve it.

  Waldo Salt

  Writing, Thinking, Fifty

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• The character is everything that I felt really strongly against - she's superficial, materialistic, vain, amoral. She's all of these things, and I realised that I really hated her. How do you play someone that you hate? But I found it really interesting and it gave me a whole new insight into what my job, or my role as an actress, could be.

  Emma Watson

  Boyfriend, Jobs, Hate

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". Interview with Dylan Jones, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. May 3, 2013.

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• I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything has to have a label. I feel that if I was figuratively dropped on the Earth and there was a political line, I would be just left of center. The difference for me is that conservatives are more interested in property values and rights and free markets, and liberals are more interested in human rights. In the end, there are people who don't fit into the marketplace and are not equipped. I believe the government should step in where the free market fails.

  George Carlin

  Atheist, Business, Believe

  Las Vegas CityLife, August 09, 2007.

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• I realized that Eastern thought had somewhat more compassion for all living things. Man was a form of life that in another reincarnation might possibly be a horsefly or a bird of paradise or a deer. So a man of such a faith, looking at animals, might be looking at old friends or ancestors. In the East the wilderness has no evil connotation; it is thought of as an expression of the unity and harmony of the universe.

  William O. Douglas

  Animal, Men, Compassion

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• Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but also my opponent

  Mikhail Tal

  Simple, Games, Chess Game

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• The moment I realized God existed, I knew that I could not do othewise than to live for Him Alone...Faith strips the mask from the world and renders meaningless such words as anxiety, danger and fear, so the believer goes through life calmly and peacefully, with profound joy--like a child, hand and hand with his mother.

  Charles de Foucauld

  God, Faith, Mother

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• I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Heaven, Suffering, Saint

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• I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or smell the blood or see those without limbs or eyes. It was not til I read Hersey's Hiroshima that I realized what bomber pilots do.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Eye, Blood

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• I had to really do some studying and examination of my own songwriting and I realized that, there's not a formula by any stretch of the imagination and aren't any rules, but there are principles. The first one is that art is a process, not a product. In fact, that holds true for damn near everything we do in life. The product is just something that happens. If you're faithful to the process, the product takes care of itself.

  Andy Wilkinson

  Art, Writing, Imagination

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• So I realized when I was successful in a piece, it was because I didn't abandon a notion early on what it ought to be, and I let it take me along. So I've had songs that started out as being about the environment and ended up being love songs and love songs that ended up being about the environment. I've had things that I thought would be a poem and realized that it was just too big for that. I've got to do something larger and it became a play. I wrote one poem that started a whole play.

  Andy Wilkinson

  Song, Writing, Successful

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• The Jungian therapist taught me the difference between the ego and the shadow. I realized I'd been so busy being a good girl that I'd completely detached from my shadow. It's something we all have, and it's where all the creative juices are.

  Sue Grafton

  Girl, Writing, Creative Juices

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• The thing I'm writing now, I have various characters, and all of a sudden, out of nowhere, this couple dies. And they have a daughter. ...I thought, 'OK, we have to do something with the daughter' ... then I realized she's not really their daughter. She has her own story. And she's become the most interesting character. She was this throwaway character that I didn't even conceive of before I started writing her into it, and now she's become very important in this book.

  Sandra Dallas

  Daughter, Couple, Book

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• I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my children's birthdays too.

  Samantha Bee

  Birthday, Children, Hate

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• I was testing a P-51 fighter in Minneapolis when I spotted this object. I was at about 10,000 feet on a nice, bright, sunny afternoon. I thought the object was a kite, then I realized that no kite is gonna fly that high.

  Deke Slayton

  Nice, Sunny Afternoon, Feet

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• About the same time, I realized that it was suddenly going away from me and there I was, running at about 300 miles per hour. I tracked it for a little way, and then all of a sudden the damn thing just took off. It pulled about a 45 degree climbing turn and accelerated and just flat disappeared.

  Deke Slayton

  Running, Climbing, Going Away

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• If you've ever been hungry then you'll never be full and I know what it's like to be hungry. When I was 13, I realized I could control my destiny through hard work. I had my hands and I was going to work my ass off, I was going to initiate and create some sort of change in my life.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Hard Work, Destiny, Hands

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• I was trying to fit in for so long, until about Junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.

  Maiara Walsh

  School, Years, Perfection

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• I had a lot of hatred, but I realized that kind of hate didn't do much. I had to start fueling myself with pride. We owe the ancestors that. So many of the souls who died in bondage just want us to recognize their struggle.

  Marilyn Nelson

  Hate, Struggle, Pride

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• As a boy Id often spend my days biking on riverbeds and arroyos and come home exhausted. I realize now how much I took for granted having the natural world so close at hand. It wasnt until I moved away, first to New York and then to Los Angeles, that I realized how much I missed the outdoors.

  Tom Hanks

  New York, Home, Boys

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• I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.

  Cindy Sherman

  Art, Ideas, Cameras

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• Britney's a very beautiful human being. After I worked with her, I realized that there was a reason why she was the most popular pop artist over so many other pop artists at that time who were more talented, had better voices. And it was because of her heart, her soulShe had the most amazing energy and was always positive and a very discreet person. We were young, too, and got to make a movie about three friends on a road trip. It was so much fun!

  Zoe Saldana

  Beautiful, Fun, Heart

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• The key thing is figuring out what your issues are, and it's really never about the food. You have to be real and honest with yourself. I had to stop and look and ask myself, ‘Why do I want this? What is the real reason?’ At times it was comfort food like chocolate. I love chocolate and I realized it relaxes me, so when you acknowledge what the issue is, you can control it better.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Real, Keys, Issues

  "Jennifer Hudson Talks Weight Loss And New Look In Book". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2012.

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• I learned to fall down early in life - I was like six - because I realized it was a way to make girls laugh.

  Matthew Perry

  Girl, Fall, Laughing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I kept looking for happiness, and then I realized: This is it. It's a moment, and it comes, and it goes, and it'll come back again. I yearn for things, but at the same time I'm just peaceful.

  Nicole Kidman

  Peaceful, Moments, Looking For Happiness

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• One evening when I had my wood-burning stove going I realized I hadn't thought of dessert.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Dumb, Burning

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