I Realized Quotes - Page 38

• I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike

  Harold Bloom

  World, Knaves, Charlatans

  "Criticism in Society". Interview with Imre Salusinski, 1987.

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• I never had a hat, never wore one, but recently was given a brown suede duck-hunting hat. The moment I put it on I realized I was starved for a hat. I kept it warm by putting it on my head. I made plans to wear it especially when I was going to do any thinking. Somewhere in Virginia, I lost my hat.

  John Cage

  Thinking, Hunting, Ducks

  John Cage (2010). “A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings”, p.116, Wesleyan University Press

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• Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn.

  Gene Hackman

  Fun, Pages, Scripts

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• I began in 1976, with small abstract paintings that allowed me to do what I had never let myself do: put something down at random. And then, of course, I realized that it never can be random. It was all a way of opening a door for me. If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Doors, Play

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• Unlike the photography and prints, I never catalogued, kept track of or exhibited the sketches. I sold some occasionally, but never saw myself as a graphic artist. They became more important to me thanks to the exhibition, however, and I realized that these drawings were quite interesting after all.

  Gerhard Richter

  Photography, Art, Drawing

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• I realized that a methane-oxygen rocket engine could achieve a specific impulse greater than 380.

  Elon Musk

  Oxygen, Rockets, Achieve

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• For no sooner had I begun to read this great work [Frasier, The Golden Bough ], than I became immersed in it and enslaved by it. I realized then that anthropology, as presented by Sir James Frazer, is a great science, worthy of as much devotion as any of her elder and more exact sister studies, and I became bound to the service of Frazerian anthropology.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Science, Biographies, Golden

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• A woman journalist in England asked me why Americans usually wrote about their childhood and a past that happened only in imagination, why they never wrote about the present. This bothered me until I realized why - that a novelist wants to know how it comes out, that he can't be omnipotent writing a book about the present, particularly this one.

  John Steinbeck

  Book, Writing, Past

  John Steinbeck, Thomas Fensch (1988). “Conversations with John Steinbeck”, p.73, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I once had an editor advise me, as I was revising one of my early novels, to add more characters. I played around with the idea. As soon as I'd decided a few fresh faces and give them something to do, I realized that what my editor had really asked for was more plot. Ding. More characters equals more action.

  Elizabeth Sims

  Writing, Character, Ideas

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• The moment that I realized my name was going to be said in the same sentence as children and sex, that's really intense. That's something I knew from that very moment, whatever happens past that point, something's out there in the air that is really bad.

  Paul Reubens

  Sex, Children, Past

  "Pee-Wee Herman creator speaks out". Interview with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. April 5, 2004.

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• I was endorsed by many corporations to work with their people. Since I had several hundred successful case histories, I realized that it was really valuable and everybody should have access to the information, so I started teaching seminars to groups of people.

  Leonard Orr

  Teaching, Successful, Should Have

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• There was a point when I was 15 or 16 that I realized that my father wanted me to be a loner. I decided, 'It's okay to be an introvert, but I don't want to be a loner. I want a few other people in my life.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Father, People, Loner

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• I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn't know what else to do but write. And then one day as I was writing, a character came sort of strolling in and I realized, Oh my God, I don't have to be just a screenwriter. I can write novels.

  Julia Cameron

  Morning, Writing, Character

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• Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.

  Larry Kramer

  Gay, Men, World

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• When I got traded to the California Angels, I really wasn't that excited about going to the Angels because it meant changing leagues and also a whole new set of teammates. But shortly after I got there I realized that it was one of the best things that ever happened to me.

  Nolan Ryan

  Angel, California, League

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• My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Wife, Income

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• And from that nineteen sixty four, this was my goal to go to Olympic Games. And I realized what does it mean, Olympic Games, like big celebration.

  Olga Korbut

  Sports, Mean, Games

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• I realized that there was a thrilling undiscovered country to be explored in the mechanisms of the mammalian nervous system. Through it, one might approach the mystery of the mind.

  Wilder Penfield

  Country, Mind, Might

  Wilder Penfield (2015). “Mystery of the Mind: A Critical Study of Consciousness and the Human Brain”, p.9, Princeton University Press

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• My mother is who she is. I've become who I am. At some point I realized those two just didn't go together.

  Tori Spelling

  Mother, Who I Am, Two

  "Tori Spelling: I Love My Mother" by Julie Jordan, people.com. April 13, 2009.

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• Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.

  Dick Armey

  Sound, Clinton, Marxist

  Interview with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. 1993.

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• I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Heart, School, Character

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• Today, I'm very happy about myself, because I realized my dreams. I learned how to understand what people want.

  Roberto Cavalli

  Dream, People, Want

  "Roberto Cavalli's Fashion Circus" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 27, 2010.

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• I wanted a good relationship with my mother, and I realized I had a choice: Either I could spend all my time angry that she didn't give me the hugs I thought I needed, or I could understand that she hugs differently. It's not a spread-open-the-arms, 'come here' hug. She hugs by sheltering me from her worries.

  Chandra Wilson

  Mother, Giving, Good Relationship

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

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• I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be.

  Paget Brewster

  Rip, Heart, People

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• Actually, I love mythology. When I was a kid I was obsessed with myth and I wanted to be a mythologist when I grew up. Then I realized I really just like stories.

  Amber Benson

  Kids, Stories, Obsessed

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