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I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama department, so the best thing for me to do was audition, help out, do carpentry, whatever it took to get me on that project.

John Ratzenberger

We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success.

Neil Innes

We all take a different path to the same place. Why we took the path we did will always be a mystery.

Diary of a Short Life

I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.'

Hilary Mantel

At a party recently I was introduced to Meryl Streep, and it took me a second to get my head around it. You know, that I'm meeting these people now. I'm doing it.

Lily Collins

When I was in kindergarten, it took me like three months to learn how to spell my own name. But that's also not saying much considering I'm a terrible speller.

Matt Czuchry

I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player.

Nolan Ryan

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

Natasha Trethewey

I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.

Olga Kurylenko

When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.

Oliver Stone

I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.

Patricia Reilly Giff

When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race.

Paul Mooney

He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.

Ralph Abernathy

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.

Red Cloud

All my films are shot on hand-held cameras. These cameras took five years to build and had to be light enough to be carried.

Robert Drew

I've always been a fan of Westerns, but my favorite kind of Westerns mostly were Sam Peckinpah's Westerns, and they mainly took place in the West that was changing.

Roger Deakins

They kind of took it out of our hands. We're still able to deal with him on an emotional level.

Rosario Dawson

It’s funny, for all it took was a broken heart and that alone was enough, enough for her to do everything she ever dreamed of.

Robert M. Drake

After taking temporary charge last season he took us from looking down at the fringes of another relegation scrap, to within a kick of getting into Europe.

Robbie Fowler

I think that everyone who took part has always been grateful for it.

Robert Fitzgerald