Quotes About Legacy

It is a source of great pride to have played 100 matches for a club as prestigious as Real Madrid.

Real Madrid is my home and if I have the opportunity to go back and do something important, or something that really appeals to me, I'll do it.

David Ben-Gurion was a mythic figure, the founding father of Israel and a modern-day prophet, but he was also a real man who stormed through history on human legs. It was my great privilege to know him and work with him for many years.

Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of a great empire.

Elvis is this thing, this commodity, and people forget that he was a real person.

A lot of people know the name Gloria Vanderbilt, but they don't really know the whole story behind her, the real person that she is.

My character in 'Shakuntala Devi' is based on a real person, her daughter Anupama Banerjee.

To get to play someone who was in some capacity the King of Harlem, that meant something to me. Deep within my bones. I was inspired by the energy that I knew to be a real thing.

Monday is going to be a very difficult day, I believe, because after all these emotions, you realise that probably you hang up your boots and stop doing something I have been doing for the last 17 or 18 years in a professional way.

I'm getting older; you realise you are on the countdown of what you are doing, so performing means more than it ever did to me.

I started to realise that it wasn't for me. Perhaps I didn't have to give my Hamlet before I died, that the world might be an OK place without my Hamlet, in fact.

At the beginning, you are 20 and you can just imagine... don't get me wrong, but having money. Then you realise that it's not only about you and what you are doing but that you have to give back.

Looking back now, I realise why, as prime minister of Malaysia, I was described as a dictator. There were many things I did which were typically dictatorial.

There's a line that runs between everyone and their ancestors, and you cannot sever that. Maybe disassociate from those ideas but not how you are connected to them. But, you can realise how you've benefited and change how you raise your kids.

My mother was a woman of the '50s who had a family in the '70s while finding her political and feminist voice. She could make marvellous three-course meals after teaching all day but hated it. Because of that legacy, it took me a long time to realise the delights of the family table.

When I finished 'True History of the Kelly Gang,' I realised that Faulkner had not lost his power over me.

I realised I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run.

My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!

Being a display pilot is probably the thing I've been most proud of in my life. Don't really fly anymore now though. I have three small children and as most of my friends were killed in different accidents, I realised that it was probably just a matter of time before I went that way.

I hadn't realised what an institution 'Doctor Who' is.

Until I was 21, I wasn't going into the media. I was a professional show jumper; I was going to have a farm... Then my father died, and it changed my life. I realised I had to have a go at being a journalist to see if I could cut the mustard.

When you have a child, you think about your personal history and what you offer them as a larger narrative, and I realised I knew nothing about my father's circumstances other than what he'd told me.

Fashion is a real passion in my family. I never even realised it was something glamorous until much later. For me, it was my family's job.

I suppose I should have realised that the very fact I was still playing for United at 38 years old was a sign that there was not enough pressure on us senior players from those coming into the side.