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• What you've got to realise is that footballers, and me in particular, have seen everything in the changing room. Everything. I've seen the manager kicking off with the players, the players kicking off with him, players fighting each other, managers fighting, everything.

  Ryan Giggs

  Fighting, Player, Kicking

  "Ryan Giggs: Nice guy finishes first" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2010.

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• I realise few people get to live the life they always wanted, but I'm so neurotic, I don't really think about it. I'm too busy thinking, 'I hope I don't screw up my next scene.

  Charlie Hunnam

  Live Life, Thinking, People

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• This Is Me”: ”For the record, I am not gay and all my sexual experiences have been straight. I'm attracted to women, I love children and aspire to have a family one day … I know what it's like to grow up and be told what your sexuality is, then realising that it's not the full reality. I was accused of being gay before I knew who I was.

  Ian Thorpe

  Children, Growing Up, Gay

  "Ian Thorpe comes out as gay in Parkinson interview" by Nadia Khomami, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2014.

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• When you're doing some things that are damaging you, you don't really realise it at the time.

  Natasha Henstridge

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• The closer you are to people, the more you realise what has happened to them.

  Jennifer Lynch

  People, Happened

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• It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be something you're not.

  Laura Marling

  Practice, Trying, No Point

  "My songs are not pretty" by Jude Rogers, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2008.

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• I realise that every time my face is on TV or I'm playing in a tournament, that I am a role model for a lot of people and a lot of kids do look up to me. I try to do my best in that regard and put myself across as honestly and as modestly as possible, as well.

  Rory McIlroy

  Kids, People, Role Models

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• When you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simple.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Simple, Medicine, Absolutes

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• I write something that I believe I've made up, and it's only when a friend later points it out to me that I realise I've been writing about myself again.

  Jo Nesbo

  Believe, Writing, Made

  "Jo Nesbø: 'If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he'd have written a thriller'". Interview with John Crace, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2012.

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• I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story.

  John McGahern

  Book, Thinking, Differences

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• Italy have plenty of high-quality players. Newcomers need time to get adjusted to the set-up and the system of play. I'm very young, and although I think I have shown good quality in my international games, I realise that there are plenty of others competing for places.

  Alessandro Del Piero

  Player, Thinking, Games

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• It's like your whole life you 've been falling toward the earth, until the moment someone catches you. And you realise that somehow you 've caught her at the same time. And together, instead of falling, you might be able to fly.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Fall, Together, Earth

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• One day Mum saved up for this exciting new thing - a frozen chicken. She cooked it on the Sunday and we all sat around waiting for it, but there was a terrible smell from the kitchen. She didn't realise that the giblets were in a plastic bag inside it. We just ate vegetables and she cried and cried.

  Carol Vorderman

  Sunday, Smell, Vegetables

  "Carol Vorderman: My family values". Interview with Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2011.

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• It was good to be a kid because I did not realise all the things that came with the success. Going to the Games, I was asked what I expected to do.

  Nadia Comaneci

  Kids, Games, Expected

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• If you lose emotion, and you gain it back, you realise that hate and love are very important to distribute properly. So I'm not going to waste any kind of emotion on things that aren't related to me.

  Marilyn Manson

  Hate, Important, And Love

  "The life and loves of a he-devil" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2007.

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• As you get older you realise that nothing lasts forever. It's not depressing, but it does make moments more intense.

  Victoria Legrand

  Depressing, Forever, Doe

  "Beach House and the curse of the big time". Interview with Sian Rowe, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.

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• Sometimes you look back at girls you spent money on rather than send it to your mum and you realise witchcraft is real

  Robert Mugabe

  Girl, Real, Looks

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• If an American is motoring on his own, he (the paragon of morality and chastity) will slow down and stop beside every solitary pretty female pedestrian, bare his teeth in a big smile, and tempt her into his car with a wild roll of the eyes. A lady who fails to appreciate his passion will qualify as an idiot who doesn't realise how lucky she is to have the opportunity of getting to know the owner of this 100-horse-power motor car.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Horse, Passion, Eye

  Vladimir Mayakovsky (2005). “My Discovery of America”

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• Is there anything more useless than a crouton? I sometimes wake up in the small hours with a start and realise that what's roused me is an overpowering urge to visit violence on its originator.

  Will Self

  Wake Up, Useless, Violence

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• I'm in hotel rooms night after night, playing a lot of the same venues as my dad and carrying the guitar that used to be his. We're the same person. I don't know if he realises how much of a legacy he has left to his children.

  Martha Wainwright

  Children, Dad, Night

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• What has been attained may again be lost. Only when you realise the true peace, the peace you have never lost, that peace will remain with you for it was never away. Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what is it that you have never lost. That which is there before the beginning and after the ending of everything, to That there is no birth nor death. That Immovable state, which is not affected by the birth and death of a body or a mind, that state you must perceive.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Mind, Body, May

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• Since it is through movement that the will realises itself, we should assist a child in his attempts to put his will into act.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Movement, Should

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• Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Envy of others comes from comparing what they have with what the envious person has, rather than the envious person realising they have more than what they could have and certainly more than some others and being grateful. It is really just an inability to get a correct perspective on their lives.

  Diogenes

  Gratitude, Grateful, Iron

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• I think it is well . . . for the man in the street to realise there is no power on earth that can protect him from bombing, whatever people may tell him. The bomber will always get through. The only defence is in offence, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you want to save yourselves.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Children, Mean, Men

  Speech in House of Commons, 10 Nov. 1932

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• In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time. [But you must know enough to realise this, lest you focus more on the defeat than finding the lesson you paid for with the defeat. With every defeat and mistake, you have the logical right to get excited about the future when you will understand and be able to apply the lessons and thereby turn defeat and temporary failure into victory and permanent success.]

  Robert Collier

  Mistake, Lying, Adversity

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