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It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.

Bela Lugosi

I was 21, and rehearsing a play, took a fall and was in a coma for a few days. And when I recovered, I'd lost my sense of smell completely.

Bill Pullman

The bohar snapper - they have these huge canines. I got bit by one. One took a chunk out of my ear - they are much scarier than the sharks.

Brian Skerry

I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.

Clive Anderson

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

Christian Nestell Bovee

There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.

Gary Oldman

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

Hank Aaron

When I first began to learn to sing, it took me from three to four months to learn two simple hymns.

Heber J. Grant

Congress first took action against steroids by passing The Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990.

Jim Sensenbrenner

When I first started, I was kind of surprised that anyone would ever hire me at all. So I took everything that I was offered.

John Slattery

Her heart unfolded in her chest, took in all of him, and closed tightly, unwilling to let him go

Justine Dell

Our Redeemer took upon Himself all the sins, pains, infirmities, and sicknesses of all who have ever lived and will ever live.

James E. Faust

The first movie, I was 23; I thought I knew everything, but my ego soon took an irrevocable blow.

James Gray

If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.

Joe Hill

In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.

John C. Hawkes

If we took Chaucer's writings at face value, we'd have to conclude he was a complete drip.

John Hutton

I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills.

Jeremy Lin

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

Sylvia Plath

The Obama administration took rapid and decisive action to restructure GM and Chrysler. Within a fairly short period of time these companies were working effectively again.

Austin Ligon

Presidential and vice-presidential debates are not about campaign staff or consultants, and it is high time we as a people took control and reminded them and their candidates of that important fact.

Bob Barr

I was one of those kids who was always seeking the truth, and I first looked for truth by reading novels. It took quite a long time for me to realize there are better ways.

Cynthia Kenyon