All Quotes

It takes a long time to appreciate one's parents.
‐‐ Kristin Scott Thomas

It takes a long time to become young.
‐‐ Pablo Picasso

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
‐‐ Franklin D. Roosevelt

It takes a long time to build democracy, to build freedom.
‐‐ Marjorie Scardino

It takes a long time to drag myself out of bed, and at night I'm buzzing. As a young man it was helpful, but now I'd like to be tired when I go to bed and alive in the morning.
‐‐ David Morrissey

It takes a long time to find your own voice. Along the way, you imitate all the things that influence you - in my case Johnny Cash, Bowie, John Lydon.
‐‐ Dave Gahan

It takes a long time to get a film made.
‐‐ Grant Heslov

It takes a long time to get a reputation for quality. There are people in our industry, they're basically copiers. Look at the cars on the streets. They all look alike. But if you put quality into a product, then have it validated, you have huge credibility.
‐‐ Mickey Drexler

It takes a long time to get to be a diva. I mean, you gotta work at it.
‐‐ Diana Ross

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
‐‐ John Leonard

It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.
‐‐ Alice Koller

It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly.
‐‐ Stellan Skarsgard

It takes a long time to publish a book.
‐‐ Kenneth Koch

It takes a long time to understand nothing.
‐‐ Edward Dahlberg

It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.
‐‐ Dana Spiotta

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.
‐‐ Jerry Gillies

It takes a lot more than just knowing how to put an outfit together to succeed in the fashion industry, so more power to you if this is where you want to be; just don't expect it to be an extended trip to the mall.
‐‐ Sophia Amoruso

It takes a lot of adrenaline and fear to make me actually write.
‐‐ Maureen Dowd

It takes a lot of courage as an actor to take time off for family. But family is everything.
‐‐ Shari Sebbens

It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.
‐‐ Zoe Saldana

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
‐‐ Alan Cohen

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
‐‐ Erma Bombeck

It takes a lot of courage, when everyone is asking you what you want to do, if you say that you want to be a musician or an actor; people can be very condescending and say, 'Oh, that's so sweet, good luck with that!' It can be very frustrating.
‐‐ James Norton

It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.
‐‐ Harmon Killebrew

It takes a lot of effort to be vibrant.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

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

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.
‐‐ Lawrence Durrell

It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.
‐‐ Jon McGregor

It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd rather spend my energy smiling.
‐‐ Eric Davis

It takes a lot of energy to teach.
‐‐ Dabney Coleman

It takes a lot of energy to work, in general, especially if you're the lead in something.
‐‐ Faith Ford

It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.
‐‐ Eknath Easwaran

It takes a lot of guts to get up on top of a bar and dance.
‐‐ Piper Perabo

It takes a lot of hard work to stay committed and focus on what I wanted to achieve.
‐‐ Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.
‐‐ Dan Colen

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
‐‐ David Bailey

It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.
‐‐ Fetty Wap

It takes a lot of people to make a winning team. Everybody's contribution is important.
‐‐ Gary David Goldberg

It takes a lot of selfish time to make music.
‐‐ Gwen Stefani

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.
‐‐ Don Herold

It takes a lot of time and a lot of energy and a lot of focus and dedication to do a film, and it's just not worth it if you're going to be miserable for even a day.
‐‐ Brie Larson

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
‐‐ Gertrude Stein

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.
‐‐ Elizabeth Edwards

It takes a lot out of you to do a one-hour episodic lead of a show. I don't think actors realize that when they take the job.
‐‐ Jane Krakowski

It takes a lot to become a foster parent.
‐‐ Rosie O'Donnell

It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

It takes a lot to scare me.
‐‐ AnnaLynne McCord

It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.
‐‐ Ellis Peters

It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
‐‐ Gordon W. Allport

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.
‐‐ Sting

It takes a mighty good man to be better than no man at all.
‐‐ Dixie Carter

It takes a minute for me to let my guard down, but once I do and I get to know someone, I'm very open, very trusting. Some might say too trusting, because considering the amount of money that can be made from selling gossip, I could be very easily taken advantage of.
‐‐ Anne Hathaway

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

It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our contemporary reality. Conversely, it just takes skilful storytelling to recharge that connection to make the past come alive in our present.
‐‐ Simon Schama

It takes a real designer to design for real women.
‐‐ Leslie Jones