#lise

When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#approval #because #certainly #confident #dad

It's been a dream for me since I was six years old to go to the Olympic Games and to finally have that dream realised is something massive for me. ↗

— Natalie du Toit

#dream #finally #games #go #i

At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#been #blind #brother #brothers #dead

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

#criticism #directors #film #film criticism #french

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

#casting #crawford #different #girl #go

I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#albeit #cost #failing #few #honourable

Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their own laws. In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want - not only you, your whole family and all people like you. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#any #arbitrary #china #clearly #crush

The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable. ↗

— Arsene Wenger

#capitalist #communist #does #economically #looks

You never realise how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#clothes #how #into #lining #much

I didn't realise I was going to be fighting the whole world. ↗

— Robert Atkins

#going #i #realise #whole #world