My little girl, Anja, is really excited. We had a baby shower yesterday and she took the presents from everyone for me and was telling them, ‘No, it’s my baby.’

I don’t know French at all. I took some lessons when I was younger but all I know are the numbers. I’ve been told basically everyone in Monaco speaks English because of it being a...

The Beatles production is often so ‘perfect’ that it sounds computerized. ‘Sgt. Pepper’ really does sound like it took four months to make.

You have to be a model and multifaceted, but there’s not a lot of ways for a model to be multifaceted because the actresses took all the covers.

I’ve always worked on all different types of music, some with specific project goals and deadlines and some not. Sometimes I would write a piece of music that is almost like a film score or...

I just took the good and the bad from all of the coaches I’ve been around.

We took dancehall and hip-hop and mixed it in the middle. I knew we had something. I thought, ‘This sound is Puerto Rican sound.’

On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker...

Homeowners who refinanced their mortgages took out cash and reduced their monthly payments at the same time. Much of the cash obtained by refinancing was spent on consumer durables, home improvements and the like.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our...

I’m doing it, I took responsibility in my country and I’ve done it with my bare hands.

When the Canadian confederation took place in 1867, a lot of people in Quebec said, ‘Could we have a referendum?’ They said, ‘Oh, no. In the British tradition, the Parliament can do anything, excluding changing...

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

I took a long period off to be a mom.

I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.

We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.

I drew a line for myself. I never dated anyone that could hire me when I was first in Hollywood, and I think that kept me focused on what I was there to do and...

God gave us intestines for a reason. I’m not keen on surgery. It’s too extreme. All it took was one of those plastic surgery shows to see how violent it is.

I’d had my daughter when I was a teenager – I took my daughter to college with me.

It took me a while to find myself.

I believe the public’s confidence would be increased if the federal government took over the functions of airport security screening for all passengers.

I’ve always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form.

With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.

In the summer after sixth grade, I took a class at St. Robert Bellarmine. My first role, I was the villain in a play, and I forgot all my lines. I think I cried my...

What Google did in Web 1.0 was take a feature, which was search, and built an entire business around that utility. In Web 2.0, Twitter took a feature, which is sharing, and built a utility...

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and...

I was cast in ‘Thor’ back in 2009, so it sort of took me out of the running for anything tied to DC Comics.

We will have close to 3 months of rehearsals to learn about 30 songs. Frank usually rehearsed a band for at least 3 months. If it took him that long to be comfortable we probably...

I grew up in dance studios. I was forced to be in several numbers in recitals and dance competitions. I took one tap class – literally one class – and then I quit.

Despite the sometimes sordid turns his life took, Michael Jackson always held my fascination, like he did for most of us.

The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention.

It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.

I was so affected by the tragic shootings that took place in Newtown, Connecticut, as we all were.

My first break wasn’t professional – I was in ‘The Sound of Music’ when I was five. I played Gretel, the youngest one, because that was what kind of took off for me in terms...

Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it’s my life, but writing is also part of me too, so I did it, and in so doing, took responsibility for...

I’ve always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.

I fantasized about being a psychology major when I first started school, and I took a handful of Psych 101 classes.

I took drugs because we all took drugs.

I don’t know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.

Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish.

Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, but they hadn’t got the facilities to develop colored film.

My house is actually two houses that were deconstructed. They were Connecticut Valley houses built in 1771 and 1781. I took them down piece by piece and reconstructed them about 50 miles to the west...

Our Redeemer took upon Himself all the sins, pains, infirmities, and sicknesses of all who have ever lived and will ever live.

I took all the philosophy courses I could.

When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.

When I took the SAT, I didn’t get accepted into a single white school that I applied to. Now I’ve got honorary degrees from a lot of those schools that rejected me. Things are different...

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.

I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and from which one couldn’t necessarily make a lot of generalizations.

I really kill myself on titles, although ‘The 5th Wave’ seems like an obvious title, doesn’t it? You don’t know how long that took me.