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I realised that there's a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring.
Kathryn Bigelow

Found, Approach, Inspiring

I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me.
George Osborne

Leadership, Morning, Experience

I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful.
Andy Goldsworthy

Small, Cannot, Big

As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.
Jenny Eclair

Funny, Women, Until

So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue, and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I haven't realised.
Emily Mortimer

Funny, Before, Chance

I've realised over the years I play my best when I have time to prepare for each tournament as best as possible.
Andy Murray

Time, Best, Play

With Maurice suddenly going, I realised... I think I've matured. I don't take things lightly any more.
Robin Gibb

Suddenly, Matured, Lightly

I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.
Benedict Cumberbatch

Career, Trying, Playing

Yeah, I'm the Brit who isn't Lewis Hamilton that woke up and realised he was good. I got that tag because I was young, flying around in jets and driving fast cars. I always took my driving seriously, but I suppose I enjoyed life... But I'm not a playboy.
Jenson Button

Life, Good, Young

I didn't know this about myself, but when 'Pirates of the Caribbean' came out I realised that I didn't enjoy a huge amount of recognition. I didn't react to it well, but I think life is about finding out who you are and what you like. So I started doing independent movies and art-house films instead.
Keira Knightley

Life, Movies, Enjoy

When I was about 13 I realised girls weren't going to kiss me because I was a gigantic, weird looking creature from the depths. I was like 6 ft. aged 11.
Chris O'Dowd

Kiss, Looking, Weird

I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer.
Andrew Motion

Time, Read, Whether

I've realised I can be happy.
Kevin Pietersen

My epiphany came in that police cell: I realised I was about to lose everything and it didn't bother me, not in the slightest. I'd come to hate cycling because I blamed it for the lie I was living.
David Millar

Hate, Lie, Everything

My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.
Juliana Hatfield

Life, Writing, Again

I've realised that nobody's going to die if I don't get it right and that there are a number of things out there, beyond acting, that are very interesting and fulfilling.
Matthew Rhys

Die, Acting, Nobody

I definitely am a huge lover of comedy, and it's only through doing so many comedies that I've realised how much of an influence they've been on me.
Bradley Cooper

Through, Comedy, Influence

For seven years, I made films in the cinema verite tradition - photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised I wanted to make things happen for myself, through feature films.
Mira Nair

Happen, Through, Made

In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.
Rowan D. Williams

Love, God, Ways

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 to achieving an end, but it's not the end.
Robert Redford

Money, True, End

I don't like vampire movies or zombie movies. I went to see 'I Am Legend' with an ex-girlfriend the other day, and I immediately realised it was a zombie movie! You know what I mean? There are certain rules, and those rules are things that you've seen many times.
Michel Gondry

Movies, Mean, Times

That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.
Lesley Garrett

Music, Profound, Magical

I think Michael Crawford realised, I think we all realised, once we'd gone the route of casting a very young girl, you can't really cast a 65 year old man opposite. Slightly different resonance I think. No, we weren't going to go there. We'd have Jack Nicholson in the lead.
Andrew Lloyd Webber

Girl, Different, Young

Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism.
Wim Wenders

Past, Real, Film

Everything is entertainment; criticism is now entertainment and it seems that the French directors have woken up one day and suddenly realised that they were not backed up any more.
Wim Wenders

Everything, Criticism, Seems

So when I realised I could sing for a living - do what I loved and be paid for it - I thought, 'This is unbelievable. Unbelievable!' And that feeling has never left me.
Tom Jones

Feeling, Thought, Living

I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book.
Sara Paretsky

Book, Thought, Write

When eventually I started to act a bit more, I realised that circus school had taught me something that a lot of actors my age didn't have: physicality. They didn't know how to move. Acting is not all about talking. There is something animalistic about it.
Vincent Cassel

Age, School, Acting

When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.
Paul Merton

Funny, Jokes, Creating

Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.
Diane Keaton

Great, Best, Writing

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