I Realized Quotes - Page 4

• Once I realized that the only thing I can actually control in this life is my own mind, how I choose to react, feel, and perceive, I felt immediately liberated.

  Nikki Reed

  Mind, Life Is, This Life

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• Perhaps I shifted from "me" to "we" when I realized that "I" could get a lot more done with "us."

  Misha Collins

  Done

  Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I've always been an environmentalist, but my life changed the day I had children. I realized that I wasn't doing enough to protect the planet. People need nature, and of course I want my children to have the best possible opportunity in life. I also realized how important it was for me to raise them to be conscientious people that are aware of their impact on the earth.

  Julia Roberts

  Children, Life Changing, Opportunity

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• I would see my hometown, Los Angeles, change. Green space and orange groves gave way to cement, freeways flooded with traffic, and air pollution, all in the name of "progress." I felt like I was losing my home. It had a profound effect on me, and I realized just how important nature was to my spirit, my soul, my point of view.

  Robert Redford

  Home, Orange, Space

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• Right when I started getting solid was when I was offered a lot of writing work. And when The Ben Stiller Show was picked up, I realized there was no way for me to do stand-up three or four nights a week and run this television show with Ben. So that was the moment when I had to make a choice.

  Judd Apatow

  Running, Writing, Night

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2011.

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• I think the first time I realized I was actually acting was during Felicity. Before that, I was just going along for the ride.

  Keri Russell

  Thinking, Acting, Firsts

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I realized that in all the sectors of society where there's a huge gender disparity, the one place that can be fixed overnight is onscreen. You think about getting half of Congress, or the presidency ... It's going to take a while no matter how hard we work on it. But half of the board members and half of the CEOs can be women in the next movie somebody makes; it can be absolutely half.

  Geena Davis

  Thinking, Boards, Half

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• Eventually I realized that Cry Baby was a character that was based off of me, and that we had a lot of similarities.

  Melanie Martinez

  Baby, Character, Cry

  Source: nocountryfornewnashville.com

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• I'm insane, I'm emotional, but I'd rather be that than a robot. So that's definitely something that I wanted to get out there. Especially with Cry Baby's story, because the album is about Cry Baby but I realized that me and her went through the same change.

  Melanie Martinez

  Baby, Emotional, Insane

  Source: nocountryfornewnashville.com

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• We always look at gerrymandering and what it has done to voting in America, but what I realized the other day is that the news has somehow become gerrymandered and is continuing to be gerrymandered in America.

  Trevor Noah

  America, Voting, Looks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I realized that what I was looking for was doing collaborations with other people - people who can play a ballad, rock, jazz. I was looking for more co-op type things than what I had been doing, which had been completely my own trip.

  Van Morrison

  Rocks, Play, People

  The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.

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• I realized I was growing up or something like that. You have responsibilities...you've got to think about getting your act together. I didn't even know what it had been doing to me. I didn't realize how dangerous it was. People talked in terms of drugs and I used to think in terms of...well in Ireland, everybody drinks. Nobody gives it a second thought. You're Irish number one and you're a drinker number two. That's the first two things about us Irish.

  Van Morrison

  Growing Up, Responsibility, Thinking

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• I wrote four novels, but then I realized that the world didn't need me to be a novelist, but the world could use me as a nonfiction writer.

  David Quammen

  Novelists, Needs, Use

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• When I reflect on the issues that black Hollywood has had with the lack of representation at the Oscars, I realized that we have a responsibility to tell stories that are meaningful for our history.

  Usher

  Meaningful, Responsibility, Issues

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• I realized that the studios didn't really understand their own system.

  George Hamilton

  Studios

  "Tanned ambitions: Hamilton reflects on Hollywood career and new film 'The Congressman'". Interview with Eric Althoff, www.washingtontimes.com. September 7, 2016.

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• Since I begrudgingly started my Instagram account and my social media exposure/connection. I say begrudgingly because I just didn't want to take the plunge, but when I realized it was just a direct connection to our customer and these women, I did it. I like listening to their stories and their feedback.

  Eva Mendes

  Media, Listening, Connections

  Source: wwd.com

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• There is that great proverb - that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. That did not come to me until much later. Once I realized that, I had to be a writer. I had to be that historian. It's not one man's job. It's not one person's job. But it is something we have to do, so that the story of the hunt will also reflect the agony, the travail - the bravery, even, of the lions.

  Chinua Achebe

  Jobs, Men, Agony

  "Chinua Achebe, The Art of Fiction No. 139". Interview with Jerome Brooks, www.theparisreview.org. 1994.

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• ...I realized how naive I was. My aunt Tina was right: this stuff does exist, and it does hurt people, and although there are lots of people at Liberty who condemn violence against gays-including Dr. Falwell himself-the number of students who want to give them the Goliath treatment isn't zero. In fact, the number who live in my room isn't zero.

  Kevin Roose

  Hurt, Aunt, People

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• When I was about 16 years old, God was beckoning me and calling me. He was relentless with me and I finally just gave up. I got to a point in my life where I realized that everything I was trying to grasp for was leaving me empty. It was totally unsatisfying.

  Dominic Balli

  Years, Leaving, Trying

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Because I didn't go to film school, I had a collection of books that were inspiring or taught me how to make movies, shorts with my friends back in Brooklyn, and one of those books was How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime which is Roger's autobiography. After reading that, I realized that oh my God, this guy is behind all my favorite Pam Grier movies. Oh my God, he made the Vincent Price Poe films that ran on television when I was little. He did Grand Theft Auto. He made Death Race 2000.

  Alex Stapleton

  Book, Reading, School

  Source: collider.com

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• I was in the back of the car with my girlfriend, the Rascals came on the radio and I realized their song was sexier than the sex I was trying to have.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Song, Girlfriend, Sex

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• I grew up in a Christian home, but was nearly 17 before I realized I had to make my own decision to place my trust in Christ. Salvation cannot be earned by doing good works or going to church, and can't be automatically passed on from Christian parents. Salvation is a free gift from God, who sent His Son Jesus Christ to die in our place.

  Drew Pinsky

  Christian, Jesus, Home

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• There was a point a few years ago where I realized I started out playing boys on camera and stage, and then I translated that to playing boys in animated shows. I was like, "Whoa, this is intense."

  Pamela Adlon

  Boys, Years, Cameras

  "‘Better Things’ star Pamela Adlon on child acting, androgyny, and Bobby Hill". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. August 9, 2016.

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• Back then, it's weird, because I wasn't consciously thinking about it and I think that's why the doors opened and I had the opportunity. It was a big shift and I realized that you can plan and think your life is going somewhere, but you also have to surrender to what opportunities present themselves and really go for those as well.

  Jillian Hervey

  Opportunity, Thinking, Doors

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• If you're feeling stressed or anxious and you don't know why, ask yourself: What little thing led me here? Recently, I canceled on a friend because I was tired. I went to bed feeling stressed out, and I realized, I feel bad because I canceled.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Tired, Feelings, Stressed

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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