I Realized Quotes - Page 40

• When a music teacher that I had at school was taken ill and we had a variety show and I had to fill in - that's when I realized I had a voice.

  Lily Allen

  Teacher, Taken, School

  "13 Questions With Lily Allen". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com. December 19, 2006.

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• So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.

  Patrick J. Adams

  Mom, Age, Want

  "Patrick J. Adams Talks SUITS, Joining the Show, Challenging Scenes, Improv on Set and Fan Expectations for the Rest of Season 2". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 14, 2012.

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• Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.

  Paul Simon

  Rejection, Way, Fifty

  Song: 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover

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• The third year of MASH was when I realized I was a hit.

  Jamie Farr

  Years, Thirds

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• Ever since I was a little kid, I've felt comfortable in a suit. It all started when my mom bought me a three-piece Pierre Cardin suit. I wore that thing everywhere. Eventually I realized I was going to be the kid who got beat up in school, but I kept wearing it.

  Paul Feig

  Mom, Kids, School

  "Paul Feig: Underrated Man of the Moment". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. May 11, 2011.

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• The more suits I owned, the more I realized the best besuited look a man can achieve comes from a harmony of three details: fabric, construction, and fit. If the suit fits you like a glove and it's well made, you simply feel better about everything in life when you're wearing it.

  Paul Feig

  Feel Better, Men, Suits

  "Hi, I'm Paul Feig, and I Wear a Suit Every Day for a Reason". www.esquire.com. September 27, 2012.

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• Fringe' was the first time I realized that I could ever man up in a character and make this transition from being a boy or a young man into actually being a man.

  Seth Gabel

  Character, Boys, Men

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• What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it.

  Victor Garber

  Miserable, Not Happy, Hours

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

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• I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old could write that well. I was even punished because my teacher thought I'd lied about writing it! I had always loved to write, but it was then that I realized that I had a talent for it.

  Brian Jacques

  Teacher, Believe, Writing

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• I've always felt alienated. I realized that I've been terrified my entire life. So I can identify that fear which drives so many of the people that I write about.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Writing, People, Terrified

  FaceBook post by Hubert Selby, Jr. from Dec 15, 2016

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• I’ve stopped war reporting. I realized that I’d answered all of my questions about war and about myself.

  Sebastian Junger

  War

  "Sebastian Junger on the Value and Cost of War Reporting and Making a Film About His Late ‘Restrepo’ Co-Director Tim Hetherington". Interview with Alison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. April 16, 2013.

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• I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute - unless something drastic occurs.

  Keith Jarrett

  Musician, Chance, Should

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• I realized I had a novel on my hands, but didn't know where it was going to go. So I thought, 'I'm going to do everything that you're not supposed to do when you plan a novel; I'm going to step back and let this thing take itself wherever it wants to go, and I'm not going to worry about how things connect until later on.

  Hari Kunzru

  Hands, Worry, Want

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• I thought I was going to be a theater actor. I moved to New York after college and did some plays and worked a lot. Once the realities of living as a theatrical actor hit me, I realized I wanted to start making a little bit of money and not have to bartend and work in theater.

  Zachary Knighton

  New York, Reality, College

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• I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor. Until I was with you and I realized: you don't realize you're on the floor.

  David Levithan

  Sex, Realizing, Understood

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.128, Macmillan

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• I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two - are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats.

  Harold Bloom

  Thinking, Two, Voice

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

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• When I grew up, I lived in the ghettos of Hollywood; it was the most disgusting place to be. I was known as the crazy little kid. I did impressions. Then I realized that's not what I want to do. I don't want to be a comedian to please other people.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Crazy, Kids, Ghetto

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• I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around. I worked in a neuroscience lab as an undergraduate and then after, almost five years in total, but I realized I just wasn't good at science. I didn't have the discipline for it.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Years, Discipline, Labs

  "Jonah Lehrer: We can all be as creative as Picasso... we just have to learn how". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2012.

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• Well, I realized finally that all of the hard work paid off.

  David Naughton

  Hard Work, Wells, Paid Off

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• I realized how important it was to know something about aviation, and it was something I was interested in, so I followed my brother's footsteps and obtained my pilot's license.

  Ellen Ochoa

  Brother, Important, Pilots

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• I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  Cameras, Directors, Exciting

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• There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected everybody else to feel the same way. I realized I was just kidding myself.

  Gerald Caiafa

  Giving Up, Way, Band

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• I love 'Sweet Valley,' but I love it from a different angle. There are people for whom it is their adolescence. They own it, in a way that even I don't. I've come to respect the project more because of the response than I've had. It's more important than I realized it was. I didn't understand the breadth and depth of it. now I'm beginning to more.

  Francine Pascal

  Sweet, People, Important

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• When I turned 18, was the first time that I really started concentrating on politics. And I started doing so because I realized that in order to really create and generate change, it has to come from changing laws... so I started campaigning for Norman Lear's foundation, which was Declare Yourself.

  Hayden Panettiere

  Order, Law, Foundation

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• I think I just realized that having a problem - an eating disorder - it's not healthy and you can actually die from that. I realized it's not worth it and you just need to be healthy.

  Nicole Polizzi

  Thinking, Healthy, Eating Disorder

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