Take Me Quotes - Page 20

• Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

  Namie Amuro

  Long, People, Concerned

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

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• I like playing my Tamagotchi and Game Boy. They take me back to the old days when times were more simple.

  Kreayshawn

  Boys, Simple, Games

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• In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take me in.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Childhood, Religion, Gardening

  Barbara Kingsolver, Annie Griffiths Belt (2002). “Last stand: America's virgin lands”, National Geographic

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• My style hasn't changed much in all these sixty years. I still use, most of the time, existing light and try not to push people around. I have to be as much a diplomat as a photographer. People don't often take me seriously because I carry so little equipment and make so little fuss... I never carried a lot of equipment. My motto has always been, "Keep it simple".

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, Simple, Light

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• As you get older, stuff starts to wear down. I can't play four basketball games a week anymore. It takes me three days to recover from one. I'm a little older, a little scrappier. So now I do yoga instead. And whatever else happens in the day, I'm set up in the best way possible. I feel great. I'm so flexible.

  Stephen Lang

  Basketball, Yoga, Games

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• Thou hast put me in this world for something, Lord; show me what that is, and help me to work out my life-purpose: I cannot do much, but as the widow put in her two mites, which were all her living, so, Lord, I cast my time and eternity too into thy treasury; I am all thine; take me, and enable me to glorify thee now, in all that I say, in all that I do, and with all that I have.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Two, Work Out, Purpose

  C. H. Spurgeon (2006). “Morning by Morning”, p.46, Hendrickson Publishers

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• A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?

  William Shakespeare

  Gentleman, Might, Pleasure

  1610 Cloten. Cymbeline, act 2, sc.1, l.10-11.

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• I go to the theatre expecting to have a good time. I want each play and performance to take me somewhere. Naturally, this doesn't always happen.

  John Lahr

  Play, Theatre, Want

  "Questions for John Lahr". www.newyorker.com. January 23, 2009.

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• The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.

  Neil Diamond

  Song, Moving, Writing

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• I've always loved comic books. As a kid, I used to read cowboy stories and historical comics about other worlds, unknown places that would take me out of myself and which helped to develop my imagination.

  James Herbert

  Book, Kids, Cowboy

  "Cultureshock: Novelist James Herbert and daughter Casey exchange experiences". www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2006.

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• I am a stranger. I come in peace. Take me to your leader and there will be a massive reward for you in eternity.

  John Glenn

  Moon, Leader, Rewards

  "John Glenn, a pioneering former US astronaut, has died" by Dave Mosher and Reuters, www.businessinsider.com. December 8, 2016.

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• You take me in, no questions asked. You strip away the ugliness that surrounds me. Are you an angel?

  Sarah McLachlan

  Friendship, Angel, Questions Asked

  Song: Sweet Surrender, Album: Surfacing

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• I am never happy when I finish a book. I always start feeling good, and then I get to about Page 75 and start losing momentum - and I kind of pull it together at the end, but by then I think it's just all over. It's become almost a running joke among my agent and my editor - I always say that, so they don't take me seriously anymore.

  Sarah Dessen

  Running, Book, Writing

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• I've never liked watching real-life couples play couples onscreen or onstage. It takes me out of the story.

  Antonio Banderas

  Couple, Real, Play

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• I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.

  Albert Brooks

  Jobs, Acting, Impossible

  "Albert Brooks Says He Knows His ‘Drive’ Character’s Entire Backstory" by Christopher Bell, www.indiewire.com. September 16, 2011.

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• My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?"

  Janet Fitch

  Father, Book, Two

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. September, 2006.

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• I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill.

  D. W. Griffith

  People, Boards, Looks

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• I saw a picture of Elvis in blue lame, and thought that if I could recreate that suit and walk down the King's Road in it, someone might pick me up and take me off on a crazy adventure.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Kings, Crazy, Adventure

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• My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

  Larry Niven

  Years, Names, Six

  Concat interview, www.concatenation.org. 1988.

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• I don't understand why God took him and didn't take me.

  Anna Nicole Smith

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• Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles.

  Jodie Foster

  Mother, Kids, Appreciate

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• When I was 7, I came up with the idea of 'charm socks.' My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school.

  Sara Blakely

  Mom, School, Ideas

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• My life has been a gift up to this point, and I've been blessed beyond my wildest imagination. And wherever this ride takes me is where I'm going.

  Sean Hannity

  Blessed, Imagination, Has Beens

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• I wanted to be an actor, and when that day happened that was sort of like the end. Now let it take me.

  Bryan Brown

  Actors, Ends, Wanted

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't want my reputation to take me over, I just want to be judged on my songs. I want people to come and see me because they want to, not because fashion dictates it.

  Jeff Buckley

  Fashion, Song, People

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

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