Takes Quotes

I find it just simply takes me right back to those times, and I really can't take it, I don't want to, I mean, why should I face up to it? What good does it do me? I know it happened, and that's it.

I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.

Movies have takes. But plays are like life - you don't really get takes.

It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country.

It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered.

If you write a hit song for Britney Spears, it's worth several million dollars. Just one song! And it might have taken you two hours to do it. It's like mining for gold. It takes a lot of skill and a lot of technique.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.

Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.

All of us want to see the details of any legislative plan if there's going to be a legislative response, but Congress, I believe, is in the mood to do whatever it takes to win this war against terrorism.

I believe life takes us where we need to be.

Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.

If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant cruelly.

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.

Instant gratification takes too long.

We want to be funny. We want to make people laugh... We'll do whatever it takes.

You know, it takes a while to get used to - it's a whole group of people with all these ideas and after you sort of navigate your way through the first few episodes it becomes collaborative and creative.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.

You get used to working with one choreographer. You kind of get stuck in that vein and you work your way out of it, picking up someone else's style, their flavor. It takes a bit of time.

If I have any appeal at all, it's to the fellow who takes out the garbage.