Take Me Quotes - Page 29

• I just sort of follow my bliss, so to speak, and then I see where that takes me.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Speak, Bliss

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• For an everyday makeup look, I usually use Almay's CC cream, then concealer, bronzer and maybe a bit of mascara. The whole thing takes me ten minutes. I apply everything with my hands and blend like crazy.

  Kate Hudson

  Crazy, Makeup, Hands

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• My oldest brother used to take me to the theater. The first play he took me to see was 'Black Comedy,' then he took me to see 'Butley.' We'd see all these British plays. And 'Hello, Dolly,' with Pearl Bailey. I was unconsciously thinking, 'Gee, I would love to be able to do that.'

  Nathan Lane

  Brother, Thinking, Play

  "Lane can't stop his career or his repartee". Ron Weiskind, Mobile Register, December 21, 1997.

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• It takes me 10 minutes to get ready to go out, and that includes the shower.

  Josh Brolin

  Minutes, Showers, Ready

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• I didnt know photography would take me to the places that it has taken me

  Carrie Mae Weems

  Photography, Taken, Knows

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• Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Giving, Lord, Give Me

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• It takes me a long time to make a big purchase...

  Jessica Chastain

  Long, Bigs, Long Time

  "Jessica Chastain Reveals How Tom Cruise Saved 'Zero Dark Thirty'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 3, 2017.

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• I'm terrible at texting people back. It takes me, like, three days. I'm not a big phone person.

  Tom Felton

  Phones, People, Three

  "Tom Felton". www.seventeen.com. July 27, 2009.

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• Country roads, take me home, to the place I belong

  John Denver

  Country, Home, Country Roads

  Song: Take Me Home, Country Roads, 1971

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• I'm always good for starting a bit of a tune and the first verse, but after that I just can never go anywhere. It takes me years, that's why I'm so slow.

  Ringo Starr

  Years, Tunes, Firsts

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• I drank water from your spring
  and felt the current take me.

  Rumi

  Spring, Water, Currents

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.143, Penguin UK

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• This year I am choosing to live beyond my wildest dreams. I wonder where they'll take me.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Dream, Years, Wonder

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• I let my music take me where my heart wants to go.

  Cat Stevens

  Music, Heart, Want

  Song: The Wind, Album: Teaser and the Firecat, 1971

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• Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers.

  Anne Lamott

  Forever, News, Good News

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

  Cardale Jones

  Athletic, Athletic Ability, Ability

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If you travel a lot, if you like roaming about in order to lose yourself, you can end up in the strangest places. I think it must be a kind of built-in radar, which often takes me to places that are either peculiarly quiet or peculiar in a quiet sort of way.

  Wim Wenders

  Thinking, Order, Peculiar

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• People are either enamored with me or wonder if they can take me.

  Michael Ironside

  People, Wonder, Enamored

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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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