Take Me Quotes - Page 9

• Of all the states of emotion I've ever been in, music takes me to the strongest state of emotion the quickest, of any other sort of state of mind I've ever been in or been put in by any substance or circumstance, music brings me to an emotional state of being faster than anything I've ever known

  Ben Harper

  Emotional, Mind, Substance

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• Lone at night, when I was twelve years old, I looked at the planet Mars and I said, 'Take me home!' And the planet Mars took me home, and I never came back. So I've written every day in the last 75 years. I've never stopped writing.

  Ray Bradbury

  Home, Writing, Night

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  There's no such thing as losing touch. You can take me out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of me.

  Snoop Dogg

  Ghetto, Losing

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. October, 1995.

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• My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums, parks and free exhibitions.

  David Blaine

  Mother, Teacher, Art

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What I like most: Reading well-written sources that take me to another world for hours at a time - and being able to call that work! Also, of course, finding a gem of information that is either exactly what I was looking for, or else fits perfectly into the story in some way.

  Linda Sue Park

  Reading, Information, Able

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• It didn't take me very long to realize that modeling wasn't very satisfying. I was always asking people, "How are you going to set up this shot? How will it be lit?" And they'd say, "Stop. Just pose." I had a problem with that.

  Shay Mitchell

  Long, People, Asking

  "Shay Mitchell on Standing Out in Hollywood". Interview with Lauren Waterman, www.teenvogue.com. April 2013.

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• My mom used to take me down to the Jersey Shore when I was 7, 8, 9 years old. I can remember being down in that area - Belmar, Seaside Heights, Asbury Park and all those places that I went back and revisited.

  David Cassidy

  Mom, Years, Height

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• My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this life. Those are my biggest successes. It has nothing to do with work.

  Tyler Perry

  This Life

  "Perry's greatest accomplishment has nothing to do with business" By Andy Segal, www.cnn.com. July 23, 2009.

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• I would rather people take me as straightforward and not have to wonder if I'm kidding or not. Because what I have to say, and what I'm interested in doing and communicating, is worthwhile enough that I don't want to muck it up with people being confused about where I'm really coming from.

  Charles Grodin

  Confused, People, Want

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. July 24, 2002.

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• Music is my passion - it's what I love and it's in my blood. You can never take me away from my work.

  Nicole Scherzinger

  Passion, Blood, Music Is

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I wouldn't mind spending six months a year having a private jet take me around the world to visit natural and historical landmarks like the Egyptian pyramids, Mount Kilimanjaro or the Taj Mahal.

  Megalyn Echikunwoke

  Egyptian Pyramids, Years, Historical

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My mum said she remembers me asking her if she'd take me to ballet lessons when I was about two and a half. She said I could barely speak, and yet was asking for ballet lessons.

  Joanne Froggatt

  Two, Ballet, Asking

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• Back in the day, I would wear up to 45 pounds of gold. It would take me four hours to get dressed!

  Mr. T

  Gold, Four, Pounds

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• It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

  Peter Doig

  Thinking, Painting, Elsewhere

  "Peter Doig: the art of the foreign". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2013.

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• I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt, who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson and a few others.

  B. B. King

  Mother, Aunt, People

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• It used to take me forever to read and comprehend stuff, so I decided not to make the 'Captain Underpants' books too challenging. Don't get me wrong - the humor and ideas are often sophisticated - but the books aren't hard to read. I wanted kids who hate reading to find these books irresistible.

  Dav Pilkey

  Hate, Reading, Book

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I write. Every book comes to me in a flash of inspiration and takes me about two seconds to finish. The longer books, like the Time Warp Trio novels, take a little longer to write - more like four seconds.

  Jon Scieszka

  Book, Inspiration, Writing

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• When my sister Joan arrived, I asked if I could swap her for a rabbit. When I think what a marvellous friend she's been, I'm so glad my parents didn't take me at my word.

  Maeve Binchy

  Thinking, Parent, Rabbits

  Interview With Jessica Simmons, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2010.

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• Calms appear, when Storms are past;
  Love will have his Hour at last:
  Nature is my kindly Care;
  Mars destroys, and I repair;
  Take me, take me, while you may,
  Venus comes not ev'ry Day.

  John Dryden

  Love, Past, Storm

  John Dryden (1784). “The poetical works of John Dryden”, p.233

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• I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to see what pictures you got.

  Christa B. Allen

  Childhood, Waiting, Cameras

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Along with rock climbing, I hike and I like to go to the beach, anything outdoors and anything that takes me out of the everyday.

  Christa B. Allen

  Beach, Rocks, Climbing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was CATS, for my birthday.

  Tammy Blanchard

  Mother, Growing Up, Cat

  "Exclusive InDepth InterView: Tammy Blanchard On HOW TO SUCCEED, THE BIG C, GYPSY, Judy Garland & More". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. May 19, 2012.

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• Comedians get jokes offered to them, rock stars get women and underwear thrown onstage, and I get guys that want to take me fishing.

  Les Claypool

  Stars, Rocks, Fishing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Roosevelt could always keep ahead with his work, but I cannot do it, and I know it is a grievous fault, but it is too late to remedy it. The country must take me as it found me. Wasn't it your mother who had a servant girl who said it was no use for her to try to hurry, that she was a "Sunday chil" and no "Sunday chil" could hurry? I don't think I am a Sunday child, but I ought to have been; then I would have had an excuse for always being late.

  William Howard Taft

  Funny, Girl, Mother

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• I walk wherever my errands take me.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Errands, Walks

  "Thinking on Her Feet / Author Rebecca Solnit wrote a book about walking -- while on the move" by Sam Whiting, www.sfgate.com. May 02, 2000.

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