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I'd had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?

I did a series of dark, desperate women shoots, my exhibitions weren't being well received, and then 9/11 happened, and I said to myself, "Have I gone too far?" Now I look back and realize going out on a complete limb at the time was right - well, people seem to be really responding to my message now, anyhow!

I didn't even realize it was a grand slam (number thirty-one) because I was mentally preparing myself for Andy Benes because he struck me out the first time.

I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art . . . that people actually paid for it.

I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a bit of ridicule. Clarence Birdseye

I didn't fully realize it then, but that was the thing I was most trying to earn playing baseball. Not money. Not glory... Love.

I didn't know about the fashion world, or at least I took it for slightly superficial. I didn't realize the extent of it.

I didn’t realize I was crying until it was time to say the blinding words. ‘I do,’ I managed to choke out in a nearly unintelligible whisper... When it was his turn to speak, the words rang clear and victorious. ‘I do,’ he vowed.

I didn't realize that diets don't work, and I did not want to diet. I didn't want to do anything that required dieting.

I didn’t realize that pretending to be this ‘Hills Heidi,’ this spoiled rich girl who I wasn’t, would almost destroy me.

I didn't realize how much people liked to bash SNL until I was on. I've always just liked it, and I've always watched it and been into it.

I didn't realize until that moment that Dauntless initiation had taught me an important lesson: how to keep going.

I didn't realize at the time that if I wrote about something, I was going to have to talk about something. A lot. Ad nauseum.

I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America.

I didn't realize quite how liberal I was until I was asked to make passionate comedic choices as opposed to necessarily successful comedic choices.

I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive.

I didn't realize you needed a response. When Hamlet is giving a monologue, he just goes on and on by himself.

I didn't really realize how big I was 'til I started to tour, because being in your own neighborhood, people don't actually give you full props.

I didn't realize how good I was with computers until I met my parents.

I didn't realize Toronto was so beautiful. Everywhere you go you see beautiful architecture.

I didn't realize, when I decided to be a comic, that a black person had never been allowed to stand flat-footed in America and talk to white folks. It never happened before.

I didn't realize how hard it was to run a small business.

I didn't realize how much me hiding my sexuality also meant that I hid a lot of just my identity as a person.

I didn't realize this was a sad occasion.

I didn't realize until those few days how much a hug meant. To have someone hold you could be the greatest medicine of all.

I did realize, as do you, how blessed I was to know bookjoy, the private pleasure of savoring text.

I did realize more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.

I do believe we're all adaptable, and you're probably more adaptable than you realize.

I do not judge success based on championships; rather, I judge it on how close we came to realizing our potential

I don't know if you realize it or not, but your sudden devotion to her is creepy.

I don't have to wait to realize the good old days.

I don't know if I went to the gym, [but] Woody [Harrelson] was 24, and at that point I was like 37, which is when you realize you're no longer 24. So in walked Woody, who was instantly great, but offstage, it was [all] testosterone. We'll arm-wrestle. I still have, like, tendinitis in my elbow. Woody cleaned everybody's clock in everything. Then we got less physical and went to chess, and he whipped our asses with chess.

I don't believe in bad people. I believe that people, somewhere inside, have the potential to realize themselves.

I don't know if it's naivete or just narcissism, but I start out with this notion that I can do anything. It's not until I get into it that I realize what I've thrown myself into, and then I will do anything not to humiliate myself. And that, I think, is the secret to my success.

I feel like everyone is living an unfulfilled life. When you reach that point of fulfillment, you want something more. But when you realize your life is unfulfilled you can either decide to be depressed or you can do something about it.

I don't take anything too seriously. If I do, I realize pretty quickly that's why I'm uncomfortable.

I don't think '90s music was as significant as '60s music in terms of changing the world, but it was significant, and I think it was similarly disillusioning when you realize the mainstream just views it as like a curiosity.

I don't think I've ever had love at first sight. I am somebody who starts to do something, and I keep on doing it without knowing if I like it or not. At some point I realize, "You know, I really like this," and it could be music; it could be anything. I like to embrace life like that.

I do realize that I have a talent for making music. It wasn't anything expected, but I do think it's deserved, if that makes sense.

I dream about finding an exception and finding someone who would make me believe in love and realize that it can work out.

If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone?

I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media.

I do realize, however, while striving to be your true self to the level I do, there will push back, resistance, and misunderstanding.

I do think that more people are feminists than they realize.

If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has a right and, under some circumstances, also an obligation to resign.

I feel a responsibility, as I get older, to be responsible to what I've experienced, to what I've lived and been in a position to witness. I realize now that as a consequence of having lived the life I have, quite apart from the one, as I understand it, lived by most American writers, maybe I now know some things and have some stories to tell that others don't know about or wouldn't be able to tell. Maybe there's an intrinsic value in that lived experience and knowledge, though of course what you do with it is everything.

I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has.

I feel quite proud to be an ambassador for women who realize that being fit is better than being skinny.

If I come up with rules or limitations it focuses me in a direction. And those rules can change if you realize it's a dumb idea. You start to mutate it to see what fits best.

If I learned all this so slowly it was because I learned by my mistakes, and some time always elapses between making a mistake and realizing it, and more time between realizing it and exactly determining it.