Realized Quotations | Page 8

My feelings started to change when I realized that dancing was getting inside my body, emotionally, as well as physically.

My first real venture was a paintball company I started in Grade 10, when I was 16. After hearing about it from a friend, I realized my town didn't have a playing field. I did some research, spoke with other paintball company owners, and I started my own field the following summer.

Wayne reached out as soon as he accepted the job to become general manager. We realized we had a lot of work to do in a short period of time if we were going to reach an agreement and avoid the arbitration hearing, which always is the goal.

Sen. Boxer is thrilled this lawsuit has been dropped -- maybe they finally realized they didn't have a leg to stand on.

So far we have kept the promise. But the dream isn't fully realized until the first group in 2009 heads off to college.

So I've realized that this outfit is part of Richard Petty now. And the real Richard Petty is still hidden behind these glasses.

So I think we've learned our lesson. Unfortunately, here at San Diego State, it took us longer than that because we overscheduled, and we've locked into these games years in advance where we couldn't get out of them. That's what I realized when I came here, is that we couldn't get out of them. And now we've got to live with the results. And it hasn't been fair.

So I said to the production company, 'what are we going to Canada for if we're not going to use local actors?' And they said to me - and this was something that I was unaware of - 'the accent is different.' And I said, being from Australia, 'what a load of nonsense.' But after I had been here for a few weeks I realized that this was indeed true, the accent is different.

When I was 12, I played the Artful Dodger in Cameron McKintosh's production of 'Oliver!' when it came to Toronto. Just getting the role shocked my whole family, and I don't think I realized until then just how much I loved getting up in front of people and performing.

When it was time for lights out, I realized just what sleeping in a place with no way out is like.