Realising Quotes - Page 11

• Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.

  Kristen Stewart

  School, Should Have, Adults

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• I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Acceptance, Animal, Men

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• I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that's the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Growing Up, Worry, Mind

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• I like the drawings. And as a photography fan myself, I would look at Helmut Newton or Irving Penn and like to see the initial notes or drawings, to see where the ideas grew from. Also my sketches are key to my work because I came to realise early on that by doing drawings, I could formulate a plan of what I was thinking of - I could take control and direct the work.

  Miles Aldridge

  Photography, Thinking, Newton

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice.

  Georges Duhamel

  Humble, Sacrifice, Thinking

  Georges Duhamel (1918). “The New Book of Martyrs: From the French of Georges Duhamel”

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• I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it's taken me this long to realise you don't have to marry a guy after three days or dump him.

  Sheena Easton

  Mother, Smart, Taken

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• I always had long hair. When you lose it, you realise just how important it is to your identity.

  Delta Goodrem

  Hair, Long, Important

  "'I'm fit and strong now. I feel blessed'". Interview with Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2007.

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• Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

  Ian Hacking

  Race, Hacking, Humans

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• At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks.

  Mark Haddon

  Jobs, Children, Fiction

  "B is for bestseller" by Mark Haddon, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

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• I never travel without my Stetson, but the more I wear it the more I realise that no one wears hats any more. When I was a kid everybody wore hats, especially in Texas, but I get off the plane in Dallas now and I'm the only guy with a hat. It's amazing.

  Larry Hagman

  Travel, Kids, Texas

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• I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Self Esteem, Issues, Lucky

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• Some critics are stimulating in that they make you realise how you could do better, and those are valued.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Critics

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• I never thought I was particularly good looking. But when I see old photographs, I realise that I was. I do wish I had known that at the time because beauty is power. I didn't realise how lucky I was to be young, beautiful and in Hollywood. It didn't hit me. Every day I woke up, went to the film studio and just got on with it.

  Joan Collins

  Beautiful, Wish, Hollywood

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• I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.

  Leonard Cohen

  Long, Verses, I Can

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• Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.

  Bjork

  People, Sake, Conservative

  "'Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age'". Interview with Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2005.

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• Sometimes I frown and I don't realise it.

  Mary J. Blige

  Sometimes

  "Q&A: Mary J Blige". Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2004.

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• My dad's a very sensitive man, but as the archetypal rebellious teenager, I didn't realise that.

  Jo Brand

  Dad, Teenager, Men

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• We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.

  George H. W. Bush

  West, East, Operations

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• Cyclists. I really hate them. I wish they would not be so self-righteous and realise they are a danger to pedestrians. I wish cyclists would not vindictively snap off wing mirrors on cars when they were trying to cross in front of the car at a danger to motorists and pedestrians.

  A. S. Byatt

  Hate, Mirrors, Self

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• So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior.

  Steven Biko

  Made, Prelude, Black Consciousness

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• Having been a father for 19 years I realise fatherhood has changed me.

  Nicolas Cage

  Father, Years, Changed

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• I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.

  Chuck Close

  Thinking, Seems

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• I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.

  Harlan Coben

  Real, Thinking, Friendly

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• I think the great thing about grandparents is seeing another home, realising that people you love can have different priorities, different diversions, different opinions and lead quite different lives from the ones you see every day, and that is immensely valuable.

  Simon Hoggart

  Home, Thinking, People

  "Simon Hoggart's week: a stalking horse from the same stable" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2013.

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• I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Song, Depressing, Comforting

  "Home entertainment". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2002.

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