Takes Quotes

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.

I can't get a relationship to last longer than it takes to make copies of their tapes.

I think they can co-exist. You don't have to put one down for another. I've been bitten by the acting bug, and where it takes me, it won't take away from the music.

When someone takes a private photo, on a private cell phone, it should remain just that: private.

If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things.

I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.

Of course, you'll have to meet the physical and psychological demands. A space walk takes a lot of energy.

With years of experience doing whatever it takes to get to the bottom of each story, I am looking forward to covering the stories in the human dimension and impart the passion and visceral reactions the audience seeks.

You could do a scene that takes 15 hours, but in the movie, it's only 10 minutes. The scene where they put the sauce poisoning in; it took eight hours.

One thing on psychology, which we've always known, is that every investor says they're long-term - and they are until the market takes a hit.

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.

Every actor I think has got their own number of takes that they like, you know. Some actors like to go all day, you know on the one scene and some actors want to take two takes. I personally like four.

People would read all kinds of reaction into it, but Tracy told me himself that half the time he was just standing very still, trying to look sober and composed. That takes nothing away from him. The fact he got away with it was a tribute to his talent.

Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.

I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating.

Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.

Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes me. I had to go to the Bohemian Grove. It was the obvious end to the book.

Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

It takes a lot of effort to win back credibility after having lost it so heavily.

It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

It takes 10 million failures to find the right stuff.

I've found even after nearly 30 years of doing this, there are all kinds of new surprises that rear their heads at various times and I truly believe that 51% of the images, success takes place in the darkroom.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

I've always wanted to do a movie that takes place in the 70's and was about rock and roll and getting high, like Dazed and Confused or Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

The American public's a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I'm going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I'm going to do it.

I've chosen to get the word out to women, especially young women, that tobacco is not glamorous - it's addictive and smoking takes a serious toll on your health.