Takes Quotes

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

To establish yourself as a leading man, you're shooting for the smallest point on the target, and you get a lot of judgment thrown at you. It takes a lot for them to get past everything and just watch your art and what you're doing.

It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest.

All it takes is a single act of aggression to permanently wound a nation's reputation.

I haven't given up on working... across the aisle on issues and maybe it'll take an election or two for that to fully ferment, maybe it you know sometimes it takes awhile for people to realize what the best path is.

Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.

What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.

It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd rather spend my energy smiling.

To me that's part of my working day, and I would never refuse a job where I'm under several hours of makeup, because as an actor, I enjoy performing. It's about the creation of the character and the art to me, not about being comfortable and how long it all takes.

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

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

When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.

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

It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country.

It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered.

If you write a hit song for Britney Spears, it's worth several million dollars. Just one song! And it might have taken you two hours to do it. It's like mining for gold. It takes a lot of skill and a lot of technique.

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.

I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.

Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.

All of us want to see the details of any legislative plan if there's going to be a legislative response, but Congress, I believe, is in the mood to do whatever it takes to win this war against terrorism.

I believe life takes us where we need to be.

Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.

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.

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.