The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
It took around 500 years to human to find out that black people are human and still they don't know why the universe is black
Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right.
I started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay.
I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'd cut that in and add it.
Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it.
Archery is something that I took up later and didn't know I had a natural aptitude for.
No aeroplane you've ever gotten into had less than thousands of flights before they took their first passenger. Because vehicles are unsafe at first.
It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.
People look at you and see that you've made it, but sometimes they forget that it took you years of being a human being.
When I was younger, I was very scared to talk to people. To the point where my parents took me to a therapist because they thought something was wrong with me.
I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.
I moved to New York when I was 10, from Rio de Janeiro. So there was no need for driving: I took the subway, cabs and the bus.
I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky.
I think if I took therapy, the doctor would quit. He'd just pick up the couch and walk out of the room.
I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years.
Margaret Atwood was the author who took me out of children's literature and guided me towards adult literature.
I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.
Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.
