I have advice for people – period – who are in unhealthy relationships: Follow your heart. It will get you to where you need to be. Sometimes it’s hard, sometimes it’s easy, the places that...

Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out.

I think films have to reach people and really grab them. That’s what I hope to do when I make a film – to get under your skin and really make you think about something,...

When you see in places like Africa and parts of Asia abject poverty, hungry children and malnutrition around you, and you look at yourself as being people who have well being and comforts, I think...

I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices...

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.

You know how there’s always the one girl in drama school who can cry at the drop of a hat? She has that emotional well she can tap into in a second? I’m not that...

I can actually build my equipment at the back end of the telescope such that it takes the data from all of the separate antennas and adds the signal together with different time delays and...

In the blues, it just takes so long for us to get recognized.

Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.

I probably won’t be able to hear it until five years from now anyway. That’s when I always hear my own music. It takes five years to sit down with it after not hearing it...

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

It’s hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long.

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’m all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!

If you cook chopped tomatoes with all of their juices, it takes a long time for the sauce to reach the right consistency. By then, the freshness is gone.

Along with rock climbing, I hike and I like to go to the beach, anything outdoors and anything that takes me out of the everyday.

It takes a long time to become human.

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

Working with children is a whole other ball game. They’re like little animals. You have to keep the camera turned on them all the time. Sometimes it takes a 41-minute take to get one sentence...

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...

It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can’t shut them up.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago’s South Side to the West Side.

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

I just go where the guitar takes me.

When you’re kept by a patron you don’t have to duke it out in the media marketplace for dollars and for readers. In some ways that’s a blessing because it takes a lot of pressure...

In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you’ve been around for years.

Sometimes when I see a performance that really takes me, I struggle. How can I express this to this person, I want this person to know how I felt. I want to get this across,...

Theater, because of the commitment, it has to be a great role and a great play to me. It takes a lot out of you.

The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don’t really have a plan.

I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to see what pictures you got.

But there is something to the fact that we don’t see games on the West Coast, or we don’t see games on the East Coast, and stuff like that. It’s so unfair, because there is...

I know how long it takes me to draw a page, how long it takes me to complete a project, how long I can work before my hand gives out, that sort of thing.

I don’t think I approach my songs differently from other artists. You get a big picture of it, and you imagine the song and hear and feel it, and that big picture is like a...

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

When I work, I work very hard. When I don’t work, I have to do something where my endeavor can totally take me off what I do professionally, like sailing. It takes all your attention.

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

Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror.

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

When I’m on stage the savage in me is released. It’s like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show.

I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.

The nice thing about a protest song is that it takes the complaint, the fussing, the finger-pointing, and gives it an added component of sociable harmony.

The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.

It’s been a while since I’ve written a novel aimed at the adult market, but I never sit down and say to myself, ‘Okay, now I’m going to write something for us old folks.’ I...

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that’s what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.

I can’t convince you to put the drink down if you’re an alcoholic, you have to want to do that. I can’t convince you to stop eating the cookies when you’re a diabetic. You have...

Got an hour or two? That’s all it takes for one of my books.

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...

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.