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“I started acting when I was five years old. I found it randomly, through listening to my brother study monologues. I auditorally started memorizing them for no reason, and started repeating them to anyone who would listen to me. And then, I begged my mom to let me do whatever that meant because I couldn't put into words exactly what that meant. It just meant me happy. And then, when I was 11 years old, I realized what I was doing and I looked to my mom and said, "Can I make this something I can do for the rest of my life?" She was like, "Yeah, sure, if you want to." And I was like, "Okay, great! I think I might want to do this forever."”

“Growing up, I realized that fame is not what you think it is. It's a little bizarre. You have to learn how to cope with that and figure out who you are.”

Thinking Littles Growing Up Growing Figures Fame Who You Are I Realized Bizarre

Author:Tyler Posey

“At around 19 I realized that I really didn't have any skills other than making people laugh, so I should probably pursue it full-time.”

People Should Laughing Skills I Realized Pursue Making People Laugh

Author:Adam Pally

“As soon as I moved to New York, I experienced Hurricane Irene and then Hurricane Sandy hit me in quite a big way. I had 12 days without any electricity or any water. The thing that I realized the most from it was that we've become so dependent on technology. There's so much accessibility to information that suddenly when everything is cut off, you're completely lost, and you start asking deeper and more profound questions - how short life is, and how grateful we should be for things.”

“I always wanted to write, even before I realized that there was a comedy writers' world, or what that life was like. I never thought of myself, at least as a little kid, in terms of being the onscreen talent. I always thought it'd be so much fun to write sketches and be a writer. Even as little as 6 or 7, that's what my main interest was.”

World Writing Littles Kids Wanted Fun Term Interest Comedy Talent I Realized Little Kid

Author:Mindy Kaling

“And I realized a wondrous truth: that knowledge could be our treasure, that there were things humankind knew that we did not, that our conquest need not comprise taking and killing, but could consist of our mutual conquest of ignorance and distrust.”

Needs Ignorance Killing I Realized Treasure Mutual Humankind Distrust Conquest Wondrous

Book:Seraphina

Source: Seraphina

“I dropped my pants in a tattoo parlor in Amsterdam. I woke up in a waterbed with this funky-looking dragon with a blue tongue on my hip. I realized I made a mistake, so a few months later I got a cross to cover it. When my pants hang low, it looks like I'm wearing a dagger!”

Looks Made Mistake Months Lows Crosses Blue Tongue I Realized Hips Dragons Pants Tattoo Made A Mistake Daggers Amsterdam Parlor Funky I Made A Mistake

Author:Angelina Jolie

“I felt bad about myself because certain people were relentlessly attacking me and my reputation. My mom kept saying 'Let it go, Lauren, It doesn't matter' ... [I] realized I had to stop worrying about what other people think. The next day I got a tattoo on my lower back that says 'sticks and stones', because they may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.”

“For the first 25 years of my life, I wanted freedom. For the next 25 years, I wanted order. For the next 25 years, I realized that order is freedom.”

Years Firsts Wanted Order Next I Realized

Author:Winston Churchill

“I studied business in school, so I worked for Chanel in marketing. And I also worked part-time in an office. So I had office jobs. And then I realized I needed to get the hell out of there, just realizing there was no fulfillment.”

School Jobs Realizing Hell Needed Office Marketing I Realized Fulfillment Part Time Office Jobs

Author:Stephanie Szostak

“The Indian philosopher J. Krishnamurti once remarked that observing without evaluating is the highest form of human intelligence. When I first read this statement, the thought, 'What nonsense!' shot through my mind before I realized that I had just made an evaluation.”

Mind Firsts Humans Made Form Highest Shots Philosopher I Realized Statements Indian Nonsense Observing Evaluation Human Intelligence

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“I realized that acting was the thing I was still maybe the best at. Of the things I felt like I was good at, that was the thing that came the most naturally to me.”

Stills Felt Acting I Realized Being The Best

Author:Joseph Mazzello

“I realized that work doesnt beget work. Good work begets work. So I got a lot more patient and stopped worrying about working all the time.”

Worry Patient I Realized Good Work Begets Working All The Time

Author:Brady Corbet

“Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.”

Important Moments Shapes I Realized Our Time Impermanence Single Mom

Book:The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

Source: The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

“By the time I got writing 'Halcyon,' I was on a roll, and I realized I had so much to write about, I realized I had so much built up inside that I couldn't really alleviate before, and then all of a sudden it was like reservoir burst.”

Writing Built I Realized Reservoirs Alleviate

Author:Ellie Goulding

“While analyzing so many people I realized the constant need of a mother, or a father, or a god (the same thing) is really immaturity. It is a childish need, a human need, but so universal that I can see how it gave birth to all religions.”

People Needs Humans I Can Mother Father Birth Universal Constant I Realized Analyzing Human Needs Immaturity

Author:Anais Nin

“I asked myself the question, 'What do you want of your life?' and I realized with a start of recognition and terror, 'Exactly what I have - but to be commensurate, to handle it all better.”

Want Terror I Realized Handle Recognition

Book:Journal of a Solitude

Source: Journal of a Solitude

“I realized that were I to paint flowers small, no one would look at them because I was unknown. So I thought I'll make them big, like the huge buildings going up. People will be startled; they'll have to look at them - and they did.”

People Looks Bigs Artist Building Flower Huge Paint I Realized

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

“At first all I wanted to be was famous; then I realized that fame had nothing to do with talent. I felt that I didn't do anything quite well enough, that I was one of those people who was famous but not very talented. So I said, okay, I'll be the Dinah Shore of the Seventies, on TV all the time but nobody quite knows why.”

People Knows Firsts Wells Said Enough Wanted Felt Talent Tvs Fame Okay I Realized Shore Seventies

Author:Cher

“I used to feel like I was waiting for someone to discover me, to 'produce' me, like Lana Turner at the drugstore. Utlimately I realized that the person I was waiting for was myself. If we wait for the world's permission to shine, we will never receive it.”

Ifs World Feels Persons Used Waiting Produce Shining I Realized Permission Turner

Author:Marianne Williamson

“I realized that calling yourself a feminist or not calling yourself a feminist, just by being in a band of all girls, it's all you talk about.”

Girl Calling Band Feminist I Realized

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“Once I started getting mainstream people to my shows, I realized we were taking too many solos, and they were too long. I started gauging when people were going on their iPhones.”

People Long Shows I Realized Mainstream Solo Iphone

Author:Robert Glasper

“The first time I ever performed spoken word poetry in front of a big crowd, it totally failed. It ended, people barely clapped...in retrospect the poem was terrible. And for a while I thought this was something I would never do again. And then I realized that, in my 17-year-old head, that was the worst it could have been. And it wasn't that bad - [because] from there, it could only get better. And I think that failure kind of freed me up to explore and not be afraid of failing again.”

People Thinking Years Firsts Kind Has Beens Bigs Failing Worst Fronts Terrible First Time Crowds I Realized Get Better Could Have Been Retrospect Spoken Word

Author:Phil Kay

“I always wanted to be a comedian. I loved comedy since I was a little kid, and while I was at university I started doing stand up shows. Once I realized that I was good at it I quit college and left although I had six months left. I went to England. I could have done the last six months but I realized that I was better at standup comedy than I was at singing opera.”

Littles Done Shows Kids Wanted Lasts Left Comedy College Months Six Singing England University I Realized Quitting Comedian Opera Six Months Little Kid I Quit

Author:Jim Jefferies

“I realized that there are some things about all of us, no matter where we're from, that we are connected and we are all still humans, and we are all still looking for the same sort of contentment in our life in one way or another. Some people are searching a little harder than others, granted. But we're not so different.”

People Humans Littles Different Matter Our Lives Harder I Realized Contentment

Author:Buck Brannaman

“I wanted to be a lawyer. I realized I don't really want to be a lawyer. I want to play a lawyer. Thank God I figured that out.”

Want Play Wanted Lawyer I Realized Thank God

Author:Ashley Greene

“I followed what the dog did... then I realized I was human.”

Humans Dog I Realized

Author:Onew

“[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn't a servant because they don't slam doors.”

Doors I Realized Servant Bedroom Royalty Slam Intruders

Author:Queen Elizabeth II

“I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can be found in most classrooms, including mine.”

Art Found Language Grief Education Mines Development Activity Including I Realized Classroom Coffins Burial Language Arts Language Development

Author:Mem Fox

“I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too.”

Ifs Persons Running Romance I Realized Businessman Belly Airports Starving Malnutrition Ethiopia

Author:Dick Gregory

“I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.”

Ideas Studios I Realized Translate

Author:Ariel Rechtshaid

“I realized that the only possible response was to go to my wonderful local café, Maison Bertaux, check everyone was well, eat a little cake and then make art. To me, making art, and in particular public art, is always an assertion of our humanity and our strength.”

Wells Littles Art Humanity Wonderful Particular Art Is Response I Realized Checks Locals Cake Assertion Public Art

Author:Martin Firrell

“New Haven cultivates ... an open gloom that seems happy to acknowledge disrepair and the superfluity of appearance. ... I realized that what cramped the town was the weight of unwritten volumes: they scored lines of unfinished writing on every second face that walked the streets.”

Writing Seems Faces Lines Cities Streets Havens Weight Towns Appearance I Realized Acknowledge Volume Gloom Unfinished Every Second Unwritten

Author:Sara Suleri

“I don't think I really accepted my power as a woman until I realized that no was a complete sentence. When I stopped making excuses for saying it and began creating boundaries in my life, I knew real power.”

Thinking Real Creating Excuse Sentences Accepted I Realized Boundaries Real Power Making Excuses

Author:Leeza Gibbons

“I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life... And now that I'm getting older, I realized that I'm walking even closer with my God.”

Years Christian Mother Walks Walking I Realized Christian Life Getting Older Baptized

Author:Andy Griffith

“For a long time I was trying to be poppier and younger. I didn't want to be on public radio or do any of that stuff for older people. Then I realized that that is exactly what I listen to.”

People Want Trying Long Stuff Long Time Radio I Realized Older People Public Radio

Author:Teddy Thompson

“S. E. Smith's I Live in a Hut has a deceptively simple title, considering that the brain in that hut contains galaxies-worth of invention: At night when your soldiers are praying ceaselessly for less rain and more underwear my soldiers make underwear out of rain. These poems seesaw between despair and delight but delight is winning the battle. Smith is a somersaulting tightrope walker of a poet and her poems will make you look at anything and everything with new eyes: For days I tried to rub the new freckle // off my hand until I realized what it was / and began to grant it its sovereignty.”

“Because the truth is, nobody knows what's best for you better than you do. You have to really sit still and ask yourself: What do I want? Does this feel right? What should I do? I realized I had to go back and do what I had always done. Listening to my gut was just as important as listening to the advice of others, and only I knew what was best for me.”

Knows Want Feels Should Doe Stills Important Done Asks Advice Listening Truth Is I Realized Guts Should I Better Than You Nobody Knows Feels Right

Book:True Love

Source: True Love

“It was only through the years that I realized what an absolutely extraordinarily thoughtful person Dr. King was.”

Years Persons Kings I Realized Thoughtful Drs Through The Years

Author:Pete Seeger

“I realized when I was taking care of my problems that the band is all I really care about.”

Problem Care Band I Realized

Author:Steven Tyler

“I'd been an actor my whole life, since I was a kid. And then, I quit for awhile and went to university. When I wanted to start acting again, I couldn't get a job, and that was really depressing. So, I realized, at that time, that I have to take responsibility for my own creativity.”

Whole Kids Wanted Jobs Actors My Own Acting Responsibility Creativity University I Realized Whole Life Quitting Depressing Taking Responsibility I Quit Really Depressing

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“I'm looking at everything with a clear eye and an attitude of acceptance rather than skepticism. I realized, this isn't a career - this is my life. This is what I do. It doesn't matter what the size of the role is. It matter that you're enjoying yourself. And I'm loving it.”

Matter Eye Enjoy Attitude Careers Roles Clear Acceptance Size I Realized Skepticism Clear Eyes

Author:Jake Busey

“When I look back, it saddens me to think that I was so hard on myself - when I was younger, I thought I had to look like everyone else, but I learned that beauty comes from how you feel about yourself. Once I started taking care of my mind, body, and soul, I realized that I didn't need to conform to what's "normal" and started to love myself.”

Thinking Needs Feels Mind Looks Soul Hard Body Care Normal I Realized About Yourself Conform How You Feel Of My Mind Mind Body Love Myself Mind Body And Soul

Author:Demi Lovato

“I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people.”

People Students Taught Lessons Response I Realized Autonomy Conferences Assignments

Book:The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

Source: The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

“I drank the Kool-Aid of being a network star. Once it didn't happen, I realized it wasn't the best version of my comedy.”

Happens Stars Comedy Aids I Realized Versions Drank Kool Aid

Author:Mike Birbiglia

“After I quit drinking, I realized I am the same asshole I always was; I just have fewer dents in my car.”

Car Drinking I Realized Quitting Fewer I Quit Quit Drinking

Author:Robin Williams

“I have a Keurig coffee maker, which is really kind of a luxury. It was given to me by an ex. I realized when I'm feeling sentimental, I'll gently, tenderly press the button. Then when I remember he dumped me, I punch it.”

Kind Feelings Remember Given Presses Coffee I Realized Luxury Makers Buttons Sentimental Exes Dumped

Author:Mo Rocca

“Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world. That's why I'm concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.”

World Children Book Helping My Own Saws Concerned Our Children Photograph I Realized Other Worlds Another World

Author:Bette Midler

“I was good at math, math was my thing - but I was not nearly good enough to be an astrophysicist. I was way outta my league. I realized this very quickly.”

Way Enough Math I Realized League Good Enough

Author:Sam Trammell

“Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.”

Energy Skills I Realized Concentration

Author:Ron Silver

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