All Quotes

It took less time to build 'Instagram' than it did for me to get my work visa. The app was an instant hit, and Facebook agreed to acquire the startup for about $1 billion in April 2012.
‐‐ Mike Krieger

It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.
‐‐ Mignon McLaughlin

It took many years to accept that fantasy is the fuel for my storytelling passion, and without that, I really am a hack, writing for money or approval rather than for the pure delight of storytelling.
‐‐ Kelley Armstrong

It took me 11 years to struggle through one dumb book, and every day you just want to give up. But you don't find out you're an artist because you do something really well.
‐‐ Junot Diaz

It took me 13 years to win a Super Bowl. But it only took me one season to win a 'mirror ball.'
‐‐ Donald Driver

It took me 14 years to write 'Crazy Brave' because I kept changing the form and I also kept running away from the story. I said I don't really want to write about myself. But it's about writing about memory.
‐‐ Joy Harjo

It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
‐‐ Yusef Komunyakaa

It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it.
‐‐ Chevy Chase

It took me 20 years to buy an electric typewriter, because I was afraid it would be too sensitive. I like to bang the keys. I'm doing action stories, so that's the way I like to do it.
‐‐ Elmore Leonard

It took me 29 years to finish that song. That's a typical Jardine move.
‐‐ Al Jardine

It took me 30 years to figure out who I really am, as a person, and who I want to surround myself with. I was very much the kind of person who would just meld in with whatever group I was near.
‐‐ Katie Aselton

It took me 35 years of being involved at a decent level of football to become manager at a great club like Celtic.
‐‐ Gordon Strachan

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.
‐‐ Paulo Coelho

It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set - which was kind of shallow in my case anyway - had begun to fade.
‐‐ Joan Didion

It took me a couple years to get over the stereotype I was letting myself get caught up on, being a football player trying to start a career in music.
‐‐ Sam Hunt

It took me a few years to explain to my colleagues and my mentors and the people that I looked up to and I wrestled that I'm not in wrestling anymore. I'm in sports entertainment. Pro' wrestling doesn't mean that we're saying we're a step up above amateur wrestling, because there's nothing above Olympic wrestling.
‐‐ Kurt Angle

It took me a few years to realize I might want to get into acting as a profession.
‐‐ Bill Fagerbakke

It took me a few years to realize that throwing harder wasn't always better.
‐‐ Dennis Eckersley

It took me a good decade of hiding in my house and not going outside to even, like, get my arms around this idea of celebrity, where suddenly people are looking for you to pick your nose or get a shot of you kissing some woman. It's a very discombobulating thing.
‐‐ Brad Pitt

It took me a good eight to ten years to really formulate what I was doing onstage and start to get really personal with comedy. I always really had timing naturally, it was just about trying to figure out how that timing was going to work onstage.
‐‐ Sebastian Maniscalco

It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me.
‐‐ Manal al-Sharif

It took me a long time, but I don't feel as anxious about stupid things anymore - or perhaps they've just been replaced by more complicated stupid things.
‐‐ Neil Finn

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
‐‐ Sally Field

It took me a long time to be accepted as an actress, I think, because of the modeling and because of my mother.
‐‐ Isabella Rossellini

It took me a long time to be alright with smiling onstage.
‐‐ Alex Ebert

It took me a long time to be convinced that marriage was right for me because I've come from a long line of broken marriages. My parents divorced, and I had two broken marriages myself.
‐‐ Sylvester Stallone

It took me a long time to come out as someone who doesn't like film. It's a bit like when people say they don't like books: you get that sharp intake of breath.
‐‐ Mark Haddon

It took me a long time to even dare to envision myself as a writer. I was very uncertain and hesitant and afraid to pursue a creative life.
‐‐ Jhumpa Lahiri

It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
‐‐ Harrison Ford

It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character.
‐‐ Sam Mendes

It took me a long time to find out that I was born to be an actor. It was the last thing on my list, although my list was very small. I didn't know what to do. But kids weren't supposed to know what to do back then; we were all cute and we'd find out what we'd do later in life.
‐‐ Rutger Hauer

It took me a long time to get comfortable with the idea of being photographed by a moving or still camera.
‐‐ Cate Blanchett

It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected.
‐‐ John L. Phillips

It took me a long time to grow up.
‐‐ Robin Wright

It took me a long time to know enough about writing to really write short stories. You can't just immerse yourself, as you do in a novel, and see where everything goes. Novels are a very flexible, accommodating form. Short stories aren't.
‐‐ Thomas McGuane

It took me a long time to learn how to be brave enough to put myself out there and try everything, no matter how strange or silly. If I can impart that same wisdom to other folks - no matter what age - it would be an honor.
‐‐ Alethea Kontis

It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.
‐‐ Bob Seger

It took me a long time to make that leap to being a grown-up and responsible adult because I carried on being a child actor into my late twenties. It's OK to be precocious when you're young, but when you're a man of about 27 or 28 and playing a 17-year-old in a TV show, it kind of prolongs your childhood.
‐‐ Dexter Fletcher

It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.
‐‐ Joseph Jarman

It took me a long time to realise that I was a girl as a teenager. At that point I never really believed it. I looked like a boy for a long time. Now, finally, I feel like a woman.
‐‐ Kristen Stewart

It took me a long time to realize that to walk around without a certain amount of belief in myself, to walk onto a job with my tail between my legs, wasn't behooving anyone else.
‐‐ Johnny Galecki

It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.
‐‐ James Cameron

It took me a long time to square with the fact that none of my experiences are typical - I'm not a typical American, but I'm also not a typical Muslim.
‐‐ G. Willow Wilson

It took me a long time to stumble upon a sound, and I figured out I wanted to kinda sing rapper's lyrics.
‐‐ Mike Posner

It took me a long time to understand the relationship between ideas and between objective facts. But after I clearly understood this relationship, I didn't fool around with other wild ideas. That is one of the main reasons why I just make my scheme as simple as possible.
‐‐ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

It took me a really long time to decide who I want my circle to be and who I want to surround myself with. Once you make that choice, that is where I feel like I have built my strength. This is my life choice. These are the people that make me feel good about me, and that I love and adore and will do anything for.
‐‐ Katie Aselton

It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
‐‐ Vanilla Ice

It took me a while to accept that I'm not going to have the curves other girls get.
‐‐ Shenae Grimes

It took me a while to figure that out and to realize what a gift that I had been given. And when I finally did, I dedicated myself to be the best pitcher I possibly could be, for as long as I possibly could be.
‐‐ Nolan Ryan

It took me a while to get back to 'The Queen of the Night.' I was angry with it as an idea because I felt like it had sort of ruined my life by taking so much attention away from 'Edinburgh.' So it essentially languished in a drawer until 2004, when I pulled it out, dusted it off, and thought, 'Oh, I actually really like this idea.'
‐‐ Alexander Chee

It took me a while to learn that certain people may have important skills that are not always blazingly apparent. Gradually I came to realize - slow as I may have been - that what mattered was performance, that sometimes people might have to be helped to develop, and that it takes all kinds to make an organization run properly.
‐‐ Katharine Graham

It took me a while to realize that basketball wasn't football.
‐‐ Merlin Olsen

It took me a while to understand that I do have a voice, and I can use it to help people.
‐‐ Rita Ora

It took me a while to understand the meaning of a franchise: the reasons why you see lawyer, doctor, cop shows. It's not because anyone in their right mind says, 'You know, what's the most fascinating thing in the world?' It's because you need something new that happens every week in a frame.
‐‐ Amy Bloom

It took me a while to warm to the '20s costumes on 'Downton.' I love it when women accentuate their curves, and that era was all about hiding them. The shapes they wore then were in tune with female empowerment. Cutting off their hair and hiding their busts was a way of saying, 'We're equal to men!'
‐‐ Lily James