Take Me Quotes - Page 2

• I love the smell of freshly cut grass. It takes me back to summers in Maine.

  Rachel Nichols

  Summer, Cutting, Smell

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• I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales.

  Mike Myers

  Mother, Memories, Character

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• Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Morning, Heart, Dark

  "Interview: Michael Morpurgo, Running Wild". Interview With Lisa Bower, www.altblackpool.co.uk. February 27, 2017.

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• When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I'd get so panicked that I would stutter.

  Adam Sandler

  Two, Gigs, Sometimes

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• What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?

  Stanley Kubrick

  Fourteen, Sucker

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• I do all my own make-up, it takes me 10 minutes.

  Joan Collins

  Minutes, My Own

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• On an awards-show day, I can play basketball, go in, take a shower and put on a tux - it takes me three minutes to put on a tux - and be out the door in 15 minutes.

  George Clooney

  Basketball, Awards, Doors

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• I grew up in Chicago, so I've always been a Bears fan. Dad used to take me to Bears games and Cubs games. My brother used to ride me over to Lake Forest College on his Honda Supersport and we'd watch the Bears practice. I remember those guys out there as monsters - they were the biggest things I've ever seen!

  Kyle Chandler

  Brother, Dad, College

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

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• I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.

  Dan Brown

  Book, Writing, Years

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• Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured.

  Alton Brown

  Our World, Ice, Fascinating

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• Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara.

  Jeff Bridges

  Santa Barbara, Wife, Take Me Away

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• An employer of mine back in the '80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It's a basic tell of character.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Character, Differences, Rough Patches

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• Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Power, Political

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• When the mood takes me, I like to be a man of action. I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better!

  Andrea Bocelli

  Horse, Men, Action

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• My mother used to take me to flea markets in my stroller, and I would just rummage through the piles. You've got to dig through the overstuffed racks that everyone else just walks by. It's the only way to find the cool stuff.

  Lily Collins

  Mother, Stuff, Way

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• The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.

  Fiona Apple

  Seven Years, Stuff, Reason

  FaceBook post by Fiona Apple from Jun 10, 2012

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• Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Giving, Feel Good, Doe

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• I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Writing, Years

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• What I like are films that take me seriously, that don't treat me as more stupid than I am.

  Michael Haneke

  Stupid, Film, Treats

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• It may take me a long time before I feel 'ready' to tour as a lead singer. I may never be ready... we'll just have to see.

  Stone Gossard

  Long, May, Singers

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• I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Distance, People, Giving

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

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• I need to behave in a way that will cause people to take me seriously.

  Megan Fox

  People, Needs, Way

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• Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.

  Colin Farrell

  Who I Am, Funny Irish, Being Irish

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

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• Sometimes I take a while to get ready to go out. It's not excessive, but it takes me some time to find clean clothes that match.

  Zac Efron

  Clothes, Sometimes, Clean

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• This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.

  Philip K. Dick

  Tyrants, People, Resistance

  Philip K. Dick (1985). “I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon”, Doubleday Books

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