I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.
America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul.
'Sex and the City' is about outsiders. Single girls as lepers, should have been married by now. It's the reason the whole thing took off.
The Beach Boys already had about four or five albums under our belt when these newcomers, The Beatles, took the U.S. by storm in early 1964.
It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.
Starving whilst schooled is like a man’s finding out that his wife is on her periods … a few seconds after he took Viagra.
I did not try to conform to anybody's ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it.
A beadlet dribbles down her cheek to wake a wet remembrance where the insincere took hold to empty forth her wounded heart.
I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!
I really kill myself on titles, although 'The 5th Wave' seems like an obvious title, doesn't it? You don't know how long that took me.
I never played coffee shops; I just played a lot of coffee shop-sized venues. I took every venue I could get my hands on.
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports.
I took three years of karate because of Bruce Lee, you know. I was a green belt.
The transformation of the United States from a traditional republic to a democratic nation run in large measure by a single executive took a couple of hundred years.
My body really, really wanted to reproduce when I was 15. It took a lot of civilization, socialization, willpower and some emulsion polymerization technology for me not to reproduce at 15.
I looked for a very long time, knowing that it had to happen, but it took me a long time to find someone with the same background and whatnot and I finally found him.
It was like the calm just as one engaged in battle, Will thought, when thought fled and inevitability took over.
It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.
Hollywood never suited me, I didn't ever feel comfortable with it, it took me a couple of years but I found where I was always meant to be... Chiswick!
People have always been resistant to change. If you go back to the 17th, 18th century, playing guitar was frowned upon. When rock n' roll first started, no one took it seriously.
