Take Me Quotes - Page 36

• When I post a review to book-blog.com it probably takes me - apart from writing the review, of course - 20 or 30 minutes to finish all my related tasks.But that's irregular, depending on how quickly I'm reading.

  Debra Hamel

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Source: keeperofthesnails.blogspot.com

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• I did my first play in fifth grade. This same fifth grade teacher asked me several years later what I wanted to do when I grew up. I knew the most fun I'd had was doing the play in her class, so when I told her that, she began to take me to local theater auditions and became my mentor and friend, and to this day continues to be.

  Heather Hemmens

  Teacher, Fun, Years

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• Usually I will hear a sample, think of a theme and then it will take me a couple of days to write down some lyrics. Then I will decide that I hate those lyrics and rewrite. Then I will change all the music around. Then I will rewrite all the lyrics again. I am a bit of a perfectionist although you would never know it because all my songs are like chopped up and @#$%& up, but you see that's on purpose.

  Princess Superstar

  Song, Couple, Hate

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• My dad's all I've ever had. When I was 3 and 4, my mom used to take me to bars. I understand why now - babysitters cost beer, beer and-a-half an hour.

  Christopher Titus

  Mom, Dad, Beer

  "Titus", www.imdb.com. 2000-2002.

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• Honestly, orthodoxy concerns me about as much as it concerns your average jackrabbit. I only follow rules that take me where I want to go. If there aren't any rules, I make up my own and follow them strictly.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Average, Want, Orthodoxy

  "Ursula K. Le Guin talks to Michael Cunningham about genres, gender, and broadening fiction". Interview with Michael Cunningham, electricliterature.com. April 1, 2016.

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• [Belafonte]'d take me to perform for Martin Luther King's cause. But when they were marching I did not take part, because I was not a citizen

  Miriam Makeba

  Kings, Citizens, Causes

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• I must honor those who fight of their own free will, he said to himself. And I must try to imitate their courage by following my path as a pacifist, wherever it takes me.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Fighting, Honor, Trying

  "Christopher and His Kind". Book by Christopher Isherwood, p. 336, 1976.

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• The devil comes and soon my subconscious and conscious might start to brawl. As this cunning demon takes me as its voodoo doll.

  Fergie

  Devil, Dolls, Might

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• I'm not an abuser. It takes me a long time to assimilate each experience. And I never have lost my respect for it. I mean I really feel dread. It is one of the emotions I always feel as I approach it, because I have no faith that my sails won't be ripped this time.

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Long, Emotion

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• Stan Lee always wanted to do another syndicated strip while we were doing Spider-Man. I was working two jobs, and he wanted to make time to do another strip. He wanted to do a humor strip. I said, 'Stan, I barely make it through the week now. How the hell am I going to do another strip?' He said, 'Oh, I'm sorry, I always forget it takes you longer to do a page than it takes me to do twenty pages.'

  John Romita, Sr.

  Jobs, Sorry, Book

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• Never give up. The bankers and financial people did not take me seriously initially. Everyone thought I would fail. My attitude was that 'No' is an unacceptable answer when it comes to financing.

  Debbi Fields

  Giving Up, Attitude, People

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• I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life. I think only a batsman will be able to tell you about the goose bumps he gets after hitting a perfect cover drive. I'm one of them.

  Gautam Gambhir

  Morning, Stress, Night

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• My favourite painting is often the one or the collection that I am currently working on. This is probably due to the fact that I don't yet know where it will take me.

  Joseph Pisani

  Facts, Painting, Favourite

  "The Conceptual Artist". Inside Switzerland magazine, Summer 2006.

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• I keep my clocks a little fast / so time won't take me by surprise.

  Ruth Whitman

  Time, Littles, Surprise

  Ruth Whitman (1990). “Laughing Gas: Poems, New and Selected, 1963-1990”, p.26, Wayne State University Press

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• Then take me on your knee, mother; And listen, mother of mine. A hundred fairies danced last night, And the harpers they were nine.

  Mary Howitt

  Mother, Night, Knees

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• I prefer that laughter shall take me unawares. Only so can it master and dissolve me.

  Max Beerbohm

  Laughter, Masters

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.116, New York Review of Books

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• I really think my fun personality is my ace in the hole. I will never claim to be the most beautiful or most talented queen, because I can think of many queens who fit that description. However, it's my "charisma" that takes me to a higher level in my drag!

  Manila Luzon

  Beautiful, Queens, Fun

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I usually have an idea that I want to build on and let the music take me where I wanna go.

  Rick Ross

  Ideas, Want

  "Rick Ross & Andy Samberg: Riding The Wavy Train". Interview with Joe La Puma, www.complex.com. May 23, 2011.

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• I am a politically motivated person, and that will come through in the music. I'm not sure if every song will be Take Me to Church, but I can only hope that people enjoy the body of work that I have ahead of me.

  Hozier

  Song, People, Church

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• I'm sure a lot of people don't take me seriously.

  Lauren Conrad

  People

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• Adrian shook his head, still smiling. "I've said over and over, I'd do anything for you. I just keep hoping it'll be something like, 'Adrian, let's go hot tubbing' or 'Adrian, take me out for fondue.'" "Well, sometimes we have to--did you say fondue?" Sometimes it was impossible to follow Adrian's train of thought. "Why in the world would I ever say that?" He shrugged. "I like fondue.

  Richelle Mead

  Train Of Thought, Hot, World

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.67, Penguin

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• All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that,and I intend to end up there. Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul? I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks. I didn’t come here of my own accord, and I can’t leave that way. Whoever brought me here, will have to take me home.

  Rumi

  Home, Eye, Night

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Who Says Words With My Mouth?”

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• In the two or three or four months that it takes me to write a play, I find that the reality of the play is a great deal more alive for me than what passes for reality. I'm infinitely more involved in the reality of the characters and their situation than I am in everyday life. The involvement is terribly intense.

  Edward Albee

  Writing, Character, Reality

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.57, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one.

  Michael Helm

  Two, Long, Three

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Do ye want me?" he whispered. "Sassenach, will ye take me - and risk the man that I am, for the sake of the man ye knew?

  Diana Gabaldon

  Men, Risk, Want

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1714, Dell

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