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“I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.”

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Author:Jodie Foster

“Like most of the other teachers, I'd done a bit of teaching and we all think we're great at what we do, but you realize that normally you have an audience who are all onside, who all want to listen.”

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Author:Jamie Oliver

“I think it's important to realize that we're all just human. I mean, nobody is supernatural.”

Thinking Humans Mean Important Realizing

Author:Amy Lee

“I think 'Gasland' is the doorway for a lot of people to see something happening in their backyard and realize the national and global implications.”

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Author:Josh Fox

“The quality of life in America is dependent on the quality of the journalism. Most people don't realize that, but if you think about it, journalism is one of the pillars on which our society is perched.”

People Ifs Thinking America Realizing Quality Journalism Dependent Our Society Quality Of Life Pillars

Author:Scott Pelley

“I am convinced that the public, large majority of the Greek people, realize that policies pursued in the past and the market practices have to be changed, in order to improve the prospects of the Greek economy. So there is, I think, strong public support despite the increases in social tensions.”

People Thinking Past Order Strong Social Realizing Practice Support Economy Policy Changed Increase Majority Convinced Despite Greek Tension Pursued Prospects

Author:Lucas Papademos

“I think President Karzai realizes exactly how important it is to strengthen the fight against corruption in the country now, step up endeavors to stop the drug trade and to deliver better governance. He said as much in his inaugural address.”

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Author:Anders Fogh Rasmussen

“I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.”

Thinking Children Has Beens Three Realizing

Author:Katey Sagal

“To not realize that everyone we think about affects us psychically, to not realize that life is a field of power, is criminal, in my opinion. If you are a sensitive and evolved being, it is simply criminal.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“If Mitt Romney can be pushed around, intimidated, coerced, co-opted by a conservative radio talk show host in Middle America, then how is he going to stand up to the Chinese? How is he going to stand up to Putin? How is he going to stand up to North Korea if he can be pushed around by a yokel like me? I don't think Romney is realizing the doubts that this begins to raise about his leadership.”

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Author:Bryan Fischer

“Never think too much of yourself. Realize you are only an instrument of eternity. Do not get stuck in that terrible trap. You can lose everything.”

Thinking Realizing Loses Too Much Buddhism Balance Terrible Eternity Instruments Stuck Traps

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Think about the flowers. Life is just a bunch of pretty pictures. All this is supposed to do is force you beyond the mind, when you realize that you can't figure it out.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Its funny how human beings tend to think that they're the masters of the earth never realizing that the earth, for a time, simply tolerates its tenants and then, when the mood strikes, it shifts its continents around.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“It can take years. With the first draft, I just write everything. With the second draft, it becomes so depressing for me, because I realize that I was fooled into thinking I'd written the story. I hadn't-I had just typed for a long time. So then I have to carve out a story from the 25 or so pages. It's in there somewhere-but I have to find it. I'll then write a third, fourth, and fifth draft, and so on.”

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Author:David Sedaris

“You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full of nervous dreams, and to wake up not knowing who one is: this all stems from anxiety about finishing the book, about time 'growing short', etc., and the perpetual strain of invention.”

Source: Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954

“I think I started realizing I was losing my hair when I was in Illinois. And it was traumatic. It was not something I had figured on in my life.”

Thinking Realizing Hair Losing Illinois

Author:Stephen Tobolowsky

“To read and to write. Some writers have to be told to write. They think their job is to meet agents and have experiences and they can just be rich and famous. Their job is to write. Some really don't realize that. And you can't write unless you read.”

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Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“Early on I came to realize something, and it came from the mail I received from kids. That is, kids at that pivotal age, 12, 13 or 14, they're still deeply affected by what they read, some are changed by what they read, books can change the way they feel about the world in general. I don't think that's true of adults as much.”

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Author:Lois Lowry

“I think we all realize that anyone can - and has - gotten AIDS. So there's obviously still a lot to be done.”

Thinking Stills Done Realizing Aids

Author:Eric McCormack