Realised Quotes - Page 2

• I'm not a real crazy social butterfly - and once I realised that and I accepted it, I started to realise how many people weren't accepting of that.

  Hayley Williams

  Crazy, Real, Butterfly

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• When I went travelling around Europe there was the Eurovision song contest on, and I got a bit dunk and we missed our train to Budapest the next day. Anyway, when I got back I kind of realised how many songs there were about people giving up things for somebody, so I thought I'd make a song about giving up things I don't have. These elaborate things that I don't have that I could give up to somebody, and I kind of thought there was kind of some sweet sentiment in that.

  George Ezra

  Sweet, Song, Giving Up

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• I saw Dolce Vita and my mind was blown by it, by the synthesis. I realised I wanted to be a filmmaker and started making films. I was writing screenplays and couldn't get money because my work was so uncommercial.

  Rebecca Miller

  Writing, Mind, Synthesis

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I stopped drinking and realised New York still has a lot of charm, but it has become so bourgeois and affluent - and I can't really complain because I'm sort of bourgeois and affluent myself, but I like living in a place where artists and musicians and writers can actually pay the rent.

  Moby

  New York, Drinking, Artist

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• Over time I just realised the world is a very complicated place, and there is not a single structured belief system that adequately and comprehensively describes every aspect of our existence. So that is my new approach to life and spirituality - I don't know anything, except on a very naive and subjective level.

  Moby

  World, Levels, Spirituality

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• Speaking Spanish and Japanese has opened doors in my career and helped me bridge cultural differences, both in my personal and business life. During my football career I realised quickly what difference language skills can make

  Gary Lineker

  Football, Doors, Bridges

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• I realised something important: whatever is on the outside can be taken away at any time. Only what is inside you is safe.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Taken, Important, Safe

  Jeanette Winterson (2011). “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?”, p.41, Random House

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• I've been waiting for you all night and day,' she said. Froi shivered. He realised that the words came from Quintana the ice maiden. Realised, as he felt his face heating up, that the idea of this Quintana waiting for him with excitement spoke to parts of him he believed to be dormant. And then she winked. 'Did I do that right?' she asked. Her smile was lopsided and he saw a glimpse of the teeth. And Froi imagined that he would follow her to the ends of the earth.

  Melina Marchetta

  Night, Ice, Ideas

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• I discover poetry when I was in elementary school and I was so fascinated by it. Because I realised if you get the right amount of syllables and the right amount of words, in the right rhyme scheme and you put it all together. You make words just bounce of a page.

  Taylor Swift

  School, Together, Pages

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• I think it was Milosz, the Polish poet, who when he lay in a doorway and watched the bullets lifting the cobbles out of the street beside him realised that most poetry is not equipped for life in a world where people actually die. But some is.

  Ted Hughes

  Thinking, People, World

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• Her absence had felt like torture--almost a form of personal punishment. He had nobody to discuss his feelings with, and for the first time he realised with appalling clarity what a destructive hold she had over him.

  Steig Larsson

  Punishment, Feelings, Firsts

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• I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be. I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something , till I realised the person I was waiting for was myself.

  Markus Zusak

  Waiting, Standing There, Persons

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• Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation.
  So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance.
  But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.

  Ramakrishna

  Ignorance, Long, Meditation

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• Even after the Truth has been realised, there remains that strong, obstinate impression that one is still an ego - the agent and experiencer. This has to be carefully removed by living in a state of constant identification with the supreme non-dual Self. Full Awakening is the eventual ceasing of all the mental impressions of being an ego.

  Adi Shankara

  Strong, Self, Meditation

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• I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Stones, Heat, Bigs

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• Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.

  Wernher von Braun

  Simple, Vision, Utopian

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• I was stuck on the side of a mountain in Scotland. I was looking down on emptiness. I lay on my back and looked around in panic. I prayed to God and relaxed. I realised if I turned carefully on my front I could see bits of grass to hold on to.

  Ivor Cutler

  Scotland, Mountain, Sides

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• I began to read for myself and realised that here was somebody who could teach me profound biblical theology, get inside my heart with his spiritual analysis, and help me to become a minister of the gospel, which is what I wanted to be.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Spiritual, Heart, Biblical

  Source: booksataglance.com

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• I never really thought comedy was a career option, just something I did for fun. Suddenly I realised I was getting paid which was a bonus. I studied for a diploma with the London College of Music, and teaching was something I thought I might do but comedy intervened.

  Bill Bailey

  Fun, Teaching, College

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I was looking for something to make me happy, and once I realised what I actually had, then I found success.

  Rebecca Ferguson

  Found, Make Me Happy

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• I realised that if I did what I wanted to do, it would work.

  John Dyer

  Wanted, Ifs

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• I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very well, and I just realised that I would have to try something else.

  James Stewart

  Moving, Trying, Desperation

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• My wife is my first reader, my first line of defence I suppose. So she says, "Oh well, oh yes, it's all true." At the same time, I could have written much more about us, but I didn't want to go any further. I did cut things out. There are certain things that I wrote about her that are so gushing with praise and admiration that when I looked at those passages I realised they would be ridiculous to anybody else.

  Paul Auster

  Cutting, Wife, Lines

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• I was so tired, wasn't having fun any more, and wasn't sure if I wanted to do this any longer. So I turned my phone off and sorted my head out. It was the opposite of a breakdown really, it was a break-up - I got rid of all the idiots, realised my job was supposed to be fun, and got on with my life.

  Simon Cowell

  Jobs, Fun, Tired

  "Simon Cowell says he has been told when he is going to die". Interview with Clemmie Moodie, www.mirror.co.uk. September 25, 2015.

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• At the age of five or six I just used to kick the ball with both feet. I wasn't very good to start with but I practised and practised. Once I finally got it, it was an unbelievable sensation. It was then that I realised that if you work at something, it pays off.

  Filo Tiatia

  Feet, Age, Balls

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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