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.

I think I’m in better shape now than I was 10 years ago, but it takes a bigger toll – I get back pain!

When the positive mind takes the lead, the legs are safe to follow without any shaking!

Animated films are so precisely engineered – right down to forming lines of dialogue with words pulled from several different takes – how do you translate that spontaneity from the live-action to the digital realm?

I think marrying somebody who’s not a celebrity, it just takes a lot of the pressure off.

Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bombay and he can’t leave Madras as some shooting has to be done, so he directs...

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...

As far as pacing the shoot is concerned, I know when I’ve got it. I don’t think there’s any reason to take ten takes unless you need them.

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.

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

It takes time for brown people and people of different ethnicities to get into the Hollywood world, which is predominantly Caucasian and African American.

We will not have humanoid androids. It’s interesting: when you start trying to make robots look more human, you end up making them look more grotesque. It takes very little to go from super-attractive robot...

I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness...

There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.

I would say a must-do in Canada would be to go skiing at Whistler in Vancouver. You could take a chair lift for, like, a half hour to the top of this mountain, and you...

I’m as patient a father as I am on the tennis court. It takes a lot for me to get really upset, but sometimes kids can get you really cross if they really keep bugging...

Crime takes the pulse of a culture. It tells us the truth about us as a species.

It’s my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don’t need as long as you’re...

Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job… and you...

It always takes awhile to find out who the characters are.

I’m not a person who needs to chit-chat between takes by any means.

We have to deal with the world as we find it. The world of what it takes to get this done.

It takes a lot of effort to win back credibility after having lost it so heavily.

Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.

I’m terrible at texting people back. It takes me, like, three days. I’m not a big phone person.

What it takes just to earn a living – working two or three jobs – is driving a wedge in families that shouldn’t be there.

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

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

Whenever I have to do something, I try to minimise the time it takes me to do it. I just cannot wait.

When I feel like I’m renowned enough, I’d love to do a heritage-type line, but that takes time.