Realised Quotes - Page 15

• I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong.

  Lewis Carroll

  Death, Believe, Tests

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.265, Delphi Classics

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• He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.

  Boris Pasternak

  Death, Art, Creating Life

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• If a thing happens once, it can happen again. If any human being has ever realised perfection, we too can do so. If we cannot become perfect here and now, we never can in any state or heaven or condition we may imagine.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perfect, Heaven, May

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3497, Manonmani Publishers

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• When I was 14 I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning, in court in the afternoon and on stage in the evening. She realised then a fantasist had been born.

  Helen McCrory

  Mother, Morning, House

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I first came to Arsenal, I realised the back four were all university graduates in the art of defending. As for Tony Adams, I consider him to be a doctor of defence. He is simply outstanding.

  Arsene Wenger

  Art, Doctors, Four

  "Quotations from the Public Comments of Arsene Wenger: Manager, Arsenal Football Club". Book by David Manson, 2005.

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• From quite an early age I realised the effect that good food can have on others.

  Jamie Oliver

  Age, Good Food, Effects

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• I wouldn't have been able to go to drama school when I was 19. I don't think I was even conscious of life... I was like a zombie. But when I finished uni' I just realized... just go and do it, stop being a knob.

  Claire Foy

  Drama, School, Thinking

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

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• I used to buy lottery tickets every week until I realised you could watch it on TV for nothing.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Humor, Watches

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• I definitely am a huge lover of comedy, and it's only through doing so many comedies that I've realised how much of an influence they've been on me.

  Bradley Cooper

  Comedy, Lovers, Influence

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• Those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things,
  Fallings from us, vanishings;
  Blank misgivings of a Creature
  Moving about in worlds not realised,
  High instincts before which our mortal Nature
  Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised

  William Wordsworth

  Moving, Fall, World

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 146 (1807)

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• Once I grew up and realised 'What am I doing?' I started re-listening to the music I was playing and I realised there was so much finesse - it was dynamic and simple but I wanted to be authentic to the original songs.

  Eric Hernandez

  Song, Simple, Listening

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• With a little inner pirouette of excitement I realised just how much there was to look forward to tomorrow. The thought of being all day naked in the sun was delicious enough in itself, but there was the whole of our new world to explore.

  Lucy Irvine

  Naked, Looks, World

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• I used to go to Vegas and play the horses, and then I realised how ridiculous that was. There is no winning in gambling, but there is on the stock market.

  Josh Brolin

  Horse, Winning, Play

  "Double trouble" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2008.

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• While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister.

  Jung Chang

  Writing, Swans, Research

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• I read ' Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer.

  Andrew Motion

  Islands, Firsts, Gone

  "Andrew Motion: 'The day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been very few and far between came back to me'". Interview With William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2012.

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• I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book

  Sara Paretsky

  Book, Writing, Hiking

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• If death were the end, then there is no God, and there are no realised masters - it is all a pack of lies. The great ones wouldn't urge you to became better, for what would be the use if, good or bad, we are all junked at the end of life? What would be the value of the scriptures? There would be no justice whatsoever if this present existence is all there is to each individual life. What of those souls who lived only a few years, or lived in blind or crippled bodies?

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Death, Lying, Years

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• I don't have a story about an epiphany in which I suddenly realised I wanted to be an actor. It was much more a case of the idea dawning on me gradually.

  Elizabeth Debicki

  Ideas, Stories, Actors

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• It's much harder to provide a great customer service than I would have ever realised. It's much more art than science in some of these other areas and not just about the facts but about how you are conveying them.

  David Yu

  Inspirational, Art, Educational

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• There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering." When a wise man has realised this, he takes no pleasure, as a disciple of the Buddhas, even in the pleasures of heaven. Instead he takes pleasure in the elimination of craving.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Buddhist, Money

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• I lived in Hollywood and, ironically, I didn't know you could just go out and get an agent and go on auditions and try and become an actor, I thought it was like a Masonic thing, like a blood line you had to belong to – until I was 13. Then I realised what you had to do. It is the one thing I know I want to do for the rest of my life.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Blood, Trying, Hollywood

  "What's eating Leo?" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. December 24, 2004.

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• The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.

  W. H. Auden

  Ideas, Catholic, Religion

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• In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.

  Rowan Williams

  Love, Way, Creation

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• Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, Youve got such a pretty face; why dont you lose some weight? Over the years Ive realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.

  Vidya Balan

  Children, Years, Issues

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• When I was 18 and not sure whether I wanted to be an actor, I realised that a playwright has no voice without an actor. That's my reason for acting: to get that character as right as possible for my writer. And I have never changed my philosophy.

  David Suchet

  Philosophy, Character, Voice

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