Takes Quotes

I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can't do 10 or 15 takes. It's all live. It's like life in motion.

It takes a long time to understand nothing.

What we really need is for me to get hot and stay hot. When I go, this team really takes off.

We are so very 'umble.

Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.

I'm the sort of person who takes a camera to dinner or a nightclub because I enjoy taking pictures of people. I tweet all my pictures, which is bad.

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

He's so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes.

In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.

You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash; that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

The Vatican takes your breath away.

I want to make an extremely strong appeal to those who abstained. Vote. It takes five minutes and then it's for five years.

The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others.

I have to wear two sports bras when I do my cardio. It takes a lot to hold these puppies up!

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.

Hollywood is the kind of place that takes what you do well in one thing and manufactures it so the joy can be taken out of it.

You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.

There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

I find that everything I do is demanding, like Jack Bristow is a complicated man and I do a lot of explaining in the show, it takes a lot of energy and concentration.

It doesn't matter who gets what. It's just a matter of doing what it takes to win.

When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something.

I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.

He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.

It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.

When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.

I can tan quickly. What takes people hours to do, I can tan in half an hour.

If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant cruelly.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight.

I always worked in institutions, I never had a restaurant of my own before, but I have opened over 30 hotels, restaurants and casinos. I understand what it takes to keep them running.

It never ceases to amaze me what it takes to develop and bring to mass production a product.

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.

In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, picture-hanging man. I don't care if he takes prescription drugs for cholesterol or hair loss.

Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.

A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that of the executed movement, which always takes place when the image is vivid enough.

In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.

It takes people a while to trust you.

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

Development does not take place in Washington, DC. Development takes place in the rest of the world.

Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.

It takes a lot to become a foster parent.

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

I was raised Catholic, and I have an aversion to anyone who takes religion to the extreme.

An Olympic pursuit really takes a full three to four years of Olympic preparation.

To snap my fingers and let it go away. Even if it takes the 3,000th hit with it, just let it all go away.

I've been around enough to know what it takes to get a team to reach its potential, and I want players who want to reach their potential.

It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

Television moves fast, and you don't have the indulgences you have when you're shooting movies of so many takes because there are tight deadlines.

A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.

To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.

There's always going to be somebody who takes a dislike to you and you can't waste time worrying about it.

Everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.

A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

Movies have takes. But plays are like life - you don't really get takes.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

I'm having a good time. Managing my things takes a lot of time.

The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.