All Quotes

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

It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell.
‐‐ Helen Reddy

It took me about 10 years to get rid of. I'm all right now, though, lovely, I'm throwing some nice darts at the moment, but every now and then I get a bit of a jump. I wish I could find a cure, I'd make a bloody fortune.
‐‐ Eric Bristow

It took me about eight years to put together the program that I have been living for twenty years.
‐‐ Marilu Henner

It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.
‐‐ Anthony Doerr

It took me all my life to learn how to salt a tomato.
‐‐ Eric Ripert

It took me at least all my 20s and some of my 30s to get the confidence to realise I could just write about what I wanted to write about without having to pass a test or look super clever.
‐‐ Matt Haig

It took me eight books to finally be at a point in my career where I could come out with a book and say, 'This is meant to be a funny book,' and we didn't have to make any bones about it.
‐‐ John Scalzi

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
‐‐ Robert Benchley

It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way.
‐‐ Leonard Baskin

It took me five years to realize what I could do with my voice. No Auto-Tune - cut all that off.
‐‐ Jeremih

It took me forever, learning improvisation, because I had studied with Lee Strasberg - I dropped out of Chicago and went to his classes in New York for a couple of years, once or twice a week. What I didn't realize was I was learning directing because he wasn't all that good about acting, not for me.
‐‐ Mike Nichols

It took me four months in Biosphere 2 to make a pizza.
‐‐ Jane Poynter

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
‐‐ Pablo Picasso

It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.
‐‐ Jonathan Carroll

It took me many years to figure out how to structure a compelling story.
‐‐ Jessica Abel

It took me many years to understand that my identity is more Israeli than Jewish.
‐‐ Mili Avital

It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating.
‐‐ Sara Paretsky

It took me nine years to get through the fourth grade. When I got into television commercials, I had to take a crash course in reading. I was 32 years old, and I couldn't read the cue cards.
‐‐ Rocky Graziano

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
‐‐ Madeleine Albright

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.
‐‐ Ginnifer Goodwin

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
‐‐ Hank Aaron

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.
‐‐ Jolene Blalock

It took me six months to redeem myself at least to have another chance to at least have her get to know me and let her know I was at least a decent guy and to give me a shot. And here we are, we've been married seven years.
‐‐ Drew Brees

It took me six novels before I felt confident of my voice as a writer.
‐‐ Andrea Hirata

It took me six years to be comfortable modeling a swimsuit.
‐‐ Elizabeth Hurley

It took me six years to get close to Picasso. I learnt a lot from him, and he was an absolute genius. He almost became my grandfather at the time. It was like he was a magician or something.
‐‐ Rene Burri

It took me sixteen years to write.
‐‐ Junot Diaz

It took me so long to get to the music, where that was what I wanted to do all my life. It took me so long to realise that it wasn't really movies that I wanted to do, but to be on stage singing.
‐‐ Lou Doillon

It took me so many years to move out. I'm definitely a bit of a Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up. It all seemed really nice at home-why change it? Part of me would prefer not to have any responsibility whatsoever.
‐‐ Helena Bonham Carter

It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I preferred instead. Not power-ridden monuments, but individual buildings which tell a quieter story: the artist's studio, or the Belle Epoque house built by a forgotten financier for a just-remembered courtesan.
‐‐ Julian Barnes

It took me ten minutes to write this very sentence. I'm no writer. This is not my calling.
‐‐ Macaulay Culkin

It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.
‐‐ Jasper Fforde

It took me ten years to write a proper story. I floundered about trying to shape something, counting on the 'feeling' I had as I wrote, only to discover upon rereading my work that the feeling had disappeared, and what remained was an empty shell.
‐‐ David Bergen

It took me three and a half years to become a mom, so it makes me feel so good to know I'm giving my baby the best chance I can to develop a strong immune system and live a healthy life.
‐‐ Constance Marie

It took me three weeks to write the 'Rhapsody in Blue.' I had always wanted to write something blue and Paul Whiteman inspired.
‐‐ George Gershwin

It took me three years to learn to dress in the American way, especially in winter. That was just like me. I barely wear socks even now.
‐‐ Mira Nair

It took me time to adjust and to realise it was not going to happen like it did in the juniors.
‐‐ Amelie Mauresmo

It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.
‐‐ Dan O'Brien

It took me to be 33 to start to know how to fight.
‐‐ Gerry Cooney

It took me too long to realise that if you go to a marriage counsellor to resolve problems, it's in his interest to keep the marriage going.
‐‐ Michael Douglas

It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

It took me two years to get an appointment with Mr. Suga who cut my hair for the Olympics. Who knew? I had no idea that it would be popular.
‐‐ Dorothy Hamill

It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician.
‐‐ Yo-Yo Ma

It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
‐‐ Natasha Trethewey