All Quotes

I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.
‐‐ Camille Claudel

I toned down my accent at school; otherwise, people would pick on me.
‐‐ Michelle Ryan

I, too, am convinced that our ancestors came from Africa.
‐‐ Richard Leakey

I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them.
‐‐ Michael Bergin

I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.
‐‐ Pope Benedict XVI

I took a 19th-century Russian novel class in college and have been smitten with Russian literature ever since. Writers like Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Grossman, and Solzhenitsyn tackle the great questions of morality, politics, love, and death.
‐‐ Anthony Marra

I took a 51 day trip through Asia; 12 countries and 26 cities. I traveled for 51 days. So, it was everywhere from Sri Lanka and that all the way to Japan, where we ended it.
‐‐ Hanya Yanagihara

I took a back seat and did whatever it took for the team to win.
‐‐ James Harden

I took a bit of a back seat, I had kids and I wanted to focus on them. There's that period in the late '90s, the early 2000s, where I didn't do a great deal.
‐‐ Gary Oldman

I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.
‐‐ Jack Osbourne

I took a break after 'Confessions.' I was real picky. And then I suddenly realized I hadn't worked in a year. And I was sort of, like, not really happy. I think people are happier when they have structure, you know? You realize that as you get older. You have to have rituals and structure.
‐‐ Sam Rockwell

I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that time I had the rare opportunity to actually do research as an undergraduate. And myself and two other people co-authored a new theorem: Percolation and Gibbs States Multiplicity for Ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller Models on Two Dimensions, or Z2.
‐‐ Danica McKellar

I took a break from horror; I made three ghost movies back-to-back-to-back.
‐‐ James Wan

I took a cabbie to taxi court once. Years ago, this guy didn't want to take me to Brooklyn. Just refused. I explained that I would absolutely take him to Taxi Court because, see, I'm an actor and have pretty much nothing but free time.
‐‐ Chris Eigeman

I took a clown class at NYU - that's where I met June Diane Raphael, my writing partner and best friend.
‐‐ Casey Wilson

I took a computer-science course to fill a prerequisite at Stanford, and I realized that every day was a new problem, and every day you got to think about how to solve something new, how to reason through something new, how to develop an algorithm to solve for something you hadn't worked on before.
‐‐ Marissa Mayer

I took a cookery course. On the examination, I had to cook a cheese omelet with peas and an egg custard. With the egg custard, which was supposed to be a dessert, I forget to put the sugar in, so that's more of a quiche, isn't it?
‐‐ Lesley Nicol

I took a couple of classes in clowning, but that was more like Lucille Ball kind of slapstick, not Ringling Brothers. But we had to do things silently, and the teacher would do this running commentary. 'Does this make Clown sad? Oh, Clown doesn't like that, does Clown?' Always 'Clown.' Never a name.
‐‐ June Diane Raphael

I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a long fiction workshop with Toni Morrison. I fell in love with it.
‐‐ Mohsin Hamid

I took a decision that I wanted to be a long-term player in Congo.
‐‐ Dan Gertler

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
‐‐ Sylvia Plath

I took a drama class in elementary school, and I just remember having so much fun with it. From there, I just studied, got better as I went along, and continued to grow.
‐‐ Sinqua Walls

I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying.
‐‐ Sara Blakely

I took a Ferrari under the 405 freeway. We took rent-a-cars through the desert. That was fun.
‐‐ Adam Ferrara

I took a film course in grade ten that made me want to direct, and I've always been making short films and home videos with my friends, so it's definitely something I wanna pursue as well.
‐‐ Devon Bostick

I took a gamble in becoming an actor and my dream job has been realised.
‐‐ Brendan Coyle

I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.
‐‐ Michelle Bachelet

I took a gap year myself after high school and worked on a farm near Lyon, France. I stayed with the Vallet family, picked and packed fruit, and discovered that red wine can be a breakfast drink. That led to further travel as a university student.
‐‐ Nicholas Kristof

I took a Groundlings class in my 20s, and I was terrible. They didn't even pass me to the next level.
‐‐ Rashida Jones

I took a huge risk leaving baseball, because I was predicted to play in the big leagues. I'm kind of a prototypical second baseman.
‐‐ Russell Wilson

I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
‐‐ Rachel Sklar

I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime.
‐‐ Esther Williams

I took a job at the Walt Disney Company and after 18 months decided to go to business school at Harvard. I was awestruck by the campus. My first reaction was 'I don't belong here.' Then I said, 'I'm here; let's get on with it.'
‐‐ Jason Kilar

I took a job in the U.S. because I wanted to work on products that would get into end users' hands. In Norway, most of the jobs are in server software, niche stuff.
‐‐ Jon Johansen

I took a little break after 'The Palace of Illusions' to clear my head.
‐‐ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I took a little break - I was coming back to work and the last thing I was going to do was take a step backwards, so I knew that if I was going to take a feature it was going to have to be taking a step forward.
‐‐ Nia Long

I took a Logo programming class in fifth grade. Logo is a language specifically designed for the classroom environment. It was basically doodling through words.
‐‐ Gene Luen Yang

I took a long period off to be a mom.
‐‐ Mia Farrow

I took a long time off to have my baby and spend time with my family.
‐‐ Kelly Preston

I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had this feeling where I was trying to please everybody - I wanted everybody to like me.
‐‐ Paula Radcliffe

I took a lot of heat from Republicans when I stepped out of John McCain's campaign after the 2008 primaries. I still supported McCain, and voted for him, but I just didn't want to be the tip of the spear attacking Obama.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon

I took a lot of long summer road trips with my dad, and the mix of music we listened to on the road skipped around from classical to Western to new age to hyper-cinematic.
‐‐ Alex Ebert

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.
‐‐ Christian Slater

I took a lot of time to open myself up to taking chances musically.
‐‐ Gavin DeGraw

I took a lot of writing courses.
‐‐ Danny Strong

I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, I was told to have another audition, but I didn't want to go there again.
‐‐ Ed O'Neill

I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.
‐‐ Kara Walker

I took a private lesson, but it didn't really work out, so I went back to playing along with records. That's really the thing that got me into playing a lot - getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.
‐‐ Chad Smith

I took a psychology class, and I think the study of the mind can help me further my acting ability. It's also taught me about getting into an environment with new people and acting like you've known them forever.
‐‐ Sierra McCormick