#realized

There was a point in the '80s when I looked out at my audience and I saw people that - were I not on the stage - they'd sooner slug me as they walked by me on the sidewalk. And I realized that I was way beyond the choir. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#beyond #choir #i #looked #me

After years of working in professional kitchens, and then spending so much time in a lot of different home kitchens, I realized that there's a huge gap in the market where you have people who develop cookware but who don't actually cook. ↗

— Curtis Stone

#after #cook #cookware #develop #different

My concept of an advice giver had been a therapist or a know-it-all, and then I realized nobody listens to the know-it-alls. You turn to the people you know, the friend who has been in the thick of it or messed up - and I'm that person for sure. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#been #concept #friend #giver #had

I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me. ↗

— Rod Taylor

#alfred #attended #august #birthday #birthday party

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#background #cannot #characters #context #empty

Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it's the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#done #faced #fears #humiliating #i

When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting. ↗

— Camilla Belle

#after #ago #art #art form #collections

They probably realized our interview would do more damage to their pro-"gay" piece - rather than help it. ↗

— Stephen Bennett

#gay #help #interview #more #our

I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my children's birthdays too. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#birthdays #children #hate #hated #i

I realized that in those nine seasons I started out at about 225 pounds and I felt, you know, full figured fabulous woman but in those seasons I gained 75 pounds up to over 300 pounds all in front of the nation. ↗

— Star Jones

#fabulous #felt #figured #front #full