And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.
And that's when I realised that a mans' ego was like fruit; easily bruised.
Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which, once realised, makes all movements full of meaning and joy.
It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal.
At the end of the day, life's about realising one's human potential. I don't know if I've realised mine, but I've certainly gone a long way towards realising some goals and some dreams.
When you cannot be deceived by men you will have realised the wisdom of strategy.
My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!
I was composing before I realised I was a composer. I mean it came more or less naturally.
When I turned 36 I realised - the likelihood is that in four years time I'll be 40.
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.
I grew up in the South Wales valleys, but I think my parents realised from quite an early age that if they hadn't sent me to boarding school I would have probably gone to prison. And it cost them absolutely everything.
Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.
When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
I used to go to Vegas and play the horses, and then I realised how ridiculous that was. There is no winning in gambling, but there is on the stock market.
One absolutely crucial change is that feminist film theory is today an academic subject to be studied and taught. "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" was a political intervention, primarily influenced by the Women's Liberation Movement and, in my specific case, a Women's Liberation study group, in which we read Freud and realised the usefulness of psychoanalytic theory for a feminist project.
I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.
More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India.
The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.