My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way.
Donald McKay

I took two years away from making films to write a novel.
Neil Jordan

I never took to Hollywood.
Kathleen Turner

I never took myself too seriously.
Curt Gowdy

I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really.
Christine Keeler

Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.
Paul Bettany

It took me 10 years to realize that I don't know 'em, 10 years to realize that it's possible to learn them, then another 10 years to learn how to do things.
Warren Zevon

I think some people found the production took away from the actual songs, which I can understand.
Emma Anderson

I've just started school again, and it was a bit strange to start off with; it took me three or four days to get used to it. My friends have been great, they've been treating me normally.
Rupert Grint

Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed.
Joshua Chamberlain

It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician.
Yo-Yo Ma

Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
Al Sharpton

I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.
Francis Ford Coppola

Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
O. Henry

From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had.
Will Adams

I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.
Jessica Savitch

Just after writing those we were called up to defend a new position on the left, where the terrible storming of the bridge over the Antietam took place.
Joshua Chamberlain

They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.
Francis Ford Coppola

When God took it, he accepted it; when he brought it back, he accepted it. That's what's happening with me.
James Brown

Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
Beau Bridges