Best I Realised Quotations
207 I Realised quotes by 186 unique authors
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The first time I realised I was patriotic was after September 11th.
— Claire Danes
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I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I'd played golf I would have been skint.
— Alan Hansen
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The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at the…
— Carolina Herrera
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my…
— Damien Hirst
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My attitude goes back to my childhood. I used to audition for theatrical roles, and you can't stand out in a room full of ambitious…
— Jessie J
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Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
— John Lennon
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Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to…
— John Lydon
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When me and my brother would go to see our daddy playing, there'd be 30 people in the audience. I was only 14 or 15,…
— Wynton Marsalis
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When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.
— Paul Merton
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The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.
— Henri Nouwen
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I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?'…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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There is nothing better than playing a scene with John Cleese or Maggie Smith. It's electric. But I don't think I'm the sort of person…
— Michael Palin
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When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way…
— Emo Philips
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Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what true value was. It wasn't money. Money is a means…
— Robert Redford
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I realised that God has placed Christians everywhere, to support each other, to support the needy in those areas, and that is the thing that…
— Cliff Richard
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I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of…
— Mickey Rourke
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I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes…
— Carlos Santana
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And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was…
— Ayrton Senna
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If I'm feeling down in the dumps, or like I need a pop of colour, I'll put on MAC's Lipstick in Lady Danger. I discovered…
— Chloe Sevigny
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I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have…
— Ed Sheeran
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When I wasn't as attractive as I am now, I suffered at the hands of cruel children and their taunts until I realised that confidence…
— Johnny Vegas
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I'm a big fan of the Pre-Raphaelites. Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, and I realised recently that my music is Pre-Raphaelite in a certain way, in that…
— Rufus Wainwright
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I don't think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stressful. It's not easy on anybody.
— Reese Witherspoon
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I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.
— Ivan KlÃma
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Food is, for me, for everybody, a very sexual thing and I think I realised that quite early on. I still cannot exaggerate how just…
— Nigel Slater
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