Take Me Quotes - Page 19

• I love everything [Jessica Simpson] ever has on! Jessica can definitely come pick me up in her little Mercedes and take me shopping if she wants!

  Miley Cyrus

  Shopping, Pick Me Up, Want

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• Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.

  Karen Allen

  Son, Want, Months

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• But trust can take you a long way. And my faith takes me a long way. And I think that our pains, our vulnerabilities, and our insecurities can fuel us to be better. To try harder. To dig deeper.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Pain, Thinking, Long

  "My Faith Pulled Me Through" by Sheila Weller, www.sfgate.com. November 5, 2012.

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• Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

  John Donne

  Infatuation, Chaste

  'Holy Sonnets' (after 1609) no. 10 (in J. Carey's edition, OUP, 1990)

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• I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans.

  Jean-Jacques Annaud

  Eyebrows, Actors, Should

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• As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Country, Home, Kids

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• I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like - it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, 'I'm gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.'

  Fantasia Barrino

  Struggle, Idols, Long

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• That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.

  Jack Abbott

  Hurt, Prison, It Hurts

  Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage

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• A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.

  Rose Tremain

  Dream, Writing, Years

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• To think, "I am a sinner, oh Father, save me," is a defective approach! You should say, "I am your son, I am your daughter, oh Father, take me on your lap, I am your child." This will be the approach. You should forget what you do not want.

  Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

  Daughter, Children, Father

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• I've come to view screenwriting assignments as playwriting grants, because they provide a considerable financial cushion. However, they can also be extremely time-consuming. Film projects tend to drag on and on, which takes me away from the theatre, and then they don't get made. At the same time, the screenplays that have come my way have been quite challenging, for the most part, and even enjoyable.

  Donald Margulies

  Views, Challenges, Theatre

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• I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

  John Donne

  Death, Exercise, Swimming

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Letters. Poems”, p.321

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• Last week, I suggested the candidates take up mushrooms. I'll be damned if Rick Perry didn't take me up on that.

  Bill Maher

  Mushrooms, Lasts, Week

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• My education is going to take me 10 times further than my athletic ability.

  Cardale Jones

  Athletic, Athletic Ability, Ability

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  Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can't stay long.

  Tom Petty

  Song, Long, Causes

  Song: Mary Jane's Last Dance

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• At last someone takes me seriously.

  Jeremy Paxman

  Lasts

  "Jeremy Paxman joins the Financial Times as a contributing editor" by Roy Greenslade, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2014.

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• I walked in a desert.
  And I cried,
  ‘Ah, God, take me from this place!’
  A voice said, ‘It is no desert.’
  I cried, ‘Well, But -
  The sand, the heat, the vacant horizon.’
  A voice said, ‘It is no desert.’

  Stephen Crane

  Voice, Desert, Horizon

  Stephen Crane (1984). “Prose and Poetry”, p.1314, Library of America

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• It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Interesting, Why Not, Asks

  "Living Legends: An Interview With the Incomparable Nikki Giovanni". Interview with Matthew Lynch, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2012.

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• It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't written about Oregon yet, although I've been there 20 years - possibly I'm almost due.

  Robert Sheckley

  Oregon, Ibiza, Years

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• Relying on the atonement which Christ has made, and desiring to be saved in no other way, I commit myself into Thy hands, O God, my Father! Take me, and do with me as Thou seest to be for Thy glory. I consecrate myself forever to Thy service, and trust for acceptance in the merits of Thy Son.

  Samuel I. Prime

  Father, Son, Acceptance

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 231, 1895.

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• Lizz Wright is my favourite singer. Her voice moves me and takes me to another place. She also grows her own food and that inspires me.

  Laura Mvula

  Moving, Voice, Inspire

  "5 Minutes With...British Singer-Songwriter Laura Mvula". Interview with Alicia Cox Thomson, www.flare.com. September 3, 2013.

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• My friend is one who takes me for what I am. A stranger takes me for something else than what I am. . . . What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm. It brings men together in crowds and mobs in bar-rooms and elsewhere, but it does not deserve the name of virtue.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Lying, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, Bradford Torrey, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1906). “Journal, ed. by Bradford Torrey, 1837-1846, 1850-Nov. 3, 1861”

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• I don't need to be any place else, because the music takes me to the only place I want to be right now. To the place where I am and have always been wholly me, the only church I've ever belonged to, the only place I've ever prayed.

  Daisy Whitney

  Church, Needs, Want

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• Star Anna is an American original. She sings from a place of beauty that takes me to a higher place.

  Mike McCready

  Stars, Anna, Higher

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• I like to exercise. I always walk an hour a day, I swim 250 days a year and I do balancing exercises which take me an hour.

  Julio Iglesias

  Exercise, Years, Swim

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

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