Took Quotes

For the last four or five years, I had been in the position where I didn't have to take a pilot. I took this one because the script and the people were terrific. It never frightened me. As we were doing the pilot, I could tell that it was working.

I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

I took pain pills to get to sleep because I didn't want to go to work the next day exhausted.

My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'

I wanted to be a columnist so badly that I took a huge pay cut to leave Forbes, which wouldn't give me a column, and join Newsday, which wanted my column for its Sunday business section.

My dad took me to all the best rock and punk shows when I was growing up and music has always been a part of my life. So I'm very interested in the music scene and I suppose that's why I've ended up going out with musicians. Dave Pirner is still one of my best friends.

What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!

I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky.

I took a shot and tried to create something world changing and it didn't work out. I gave it everything I had, literally, and now I'm just trying to manage day by day and it's been challenging but my wife and my kids are healthy, and I'm OK.

I was thinking about that, about what lines you'd be willing to cross if someone took your loved one or child.

I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers.

No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did.

The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.

Gradually the live TV scene simmered out, replaced by film, and that took place in L.A. So many actors left New York.

So I took it as a very positive sign that the club came to me rather than the other way round.

Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

I've exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years. For the most part, these communications took place before my marriage, though some have sadly took place after. To be clear, I have never met any of these women or had physical relationships at any time.

Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.

So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.

Many of the Jews who owned the homes, the apartments in the black community, we considered them bloodsuckers because they took from our community and built their community but didn't offer anything back to our community.

This drama between Dean and Ehrlichman took place while I was trying to give the contents to the FBI.

I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation.

If we took Chaucer's writings at face value, we'd have to conclude he was a complete drip.

I took business classes as a back up but I made movies all the time. I would get my classes done in two days and then spend the rest of the time making my movies.

I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.

My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in.

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul.