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Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me.

Rem Koolhaas

It's interesting because a lot of people that stop me on the street now, and they talk about 'The Wire,' and they all have the same question: 'How come they took that show off the air?'

Seth Gilliam

Flashbacks rarely involve language. Mine certainly didn't. They were visual, motor, and sensory, and they took place in a relentless, horrifying present.

Siri Hustvedt

I played golf competitively as a teenager. I actually took a year off after high school and just played golf and went to a university in France for maybe a month and dropped out.

Stephanie Szostak

My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.

Sam Taylor-Wood

I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.

Sting

While I was doing these plays in the beginning, I wasn't getting paid. I thought of it more as a hobby. Then I realized how seriously a lot of these people took what they were doing.

Tom Berenger

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

Taylor Caldwell

It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.

Ted Hughes

No show would be successful if you took a group of people and just said, 'You're dumb!' over and over. That's not what Broadway's about.

Trey Parker

What I really wanted was to perform. So if it took four world titles or one Olympic medal, I just wanted so badly to be able to perform. So it doesn't hinder me sleeping at night that I don't have an Olympic medal.

Kurt Browning

I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.

Kevin James

You could do a scene that takes 15 hours, but in the movie, it's only 10 minutes. The scene where they put the sauce poisoning in; it took eight hours.

Kel Mitchell

There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty.

Keith O'Brien

It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.

Karen Thompson Walker

I was always a little adult. Even as a little kid, I just couldn't understand why I was surrounded by all these kids. I took things very seriously.

Laura Benanti

Giving your friends the evil eye, as you attempt to convince them that they took you away from your book, and it was awesome.

Love The Stacks Bookstore

Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.

Leslie Fiedler

When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.

Leonard Maltin

I always was flattered when people would say I would do whatever it took for the team. I always thought of myself as that kind of guy.

Logan Mankins

My auntie Anne took me to 'Phantom of the Opera' in London. I thought it was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen.

Lisa O'Hare