Some of the kimonos took as long as four to five months to make, with all the layers that go into it.

People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

My mum has lived in Australia for 22 years now, and we have a rocky relationship. But at the same time it’s one I want to maintain. I need her to be my mum. The...

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it seemed the most extreme reaction to the earnestness of hippies.

He took me under his wing when I first came to the Rams and taught me everything – his technique in the pass rush, how to play off blockers, and how to make the big...

For the surf idol Duke Kahanamoku portrait, which I created for the Surfrider Foundation, I took a photo from a book cover and abstracted the photo image into a drawing. This drawing was laminated onto...

He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.

I truly, truly believe that I was going in that direction and all of a sudden fate took me and put me here. It’s like something else has other plans for me.

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.

I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.

My first job, I worked at ‘YM’ and I had an extremely tough boss who made me cry every single day. But what I took away from that was how I would never be.

At 24, I took time off to have a baby, and ever since, I have been juggling modelling with motherhood.

I took back my life.

I’m a huge fan of Brad Pitt. He could have done rom-coms his entire career, but he took it in a different direction.

Training for the Olympics was a lifelong endeavor and took many years.

I took up boxing to get in shape for filming because it’s grueling – all the running, the heat, the yelling, the crying that we do.

Too many multi-vitamins are packaged as one size fits all, but you should be more specific about what you need. When I was competing as a dancer, I took zinc for healthy skin and immune...

It took a long time to get to the place in my career where I could pick and choose what I wanted to do.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

I took the life of the woman I was supposed to call mother in the process of being born… in order to become the world’s strongest shinobi… an incarnation of sand was implanted inside of...

It took years, honestly, to deal with the disappointment of Beijing.

Just about every science whiz can tell you how he or she took apart the TV or the radio when they were kids just to see how it worked. To see what the world was...

The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn’t have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.

Actually, I’m an overnight success, but it took twenty years.

I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland.

Prog didn’t really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the...

Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I’m glad of it.

I got a promo of ‘Nichts Muss’ in what would have been 2002 or 2003 and fell totally in love with it after listening to it on an airplane that took me to Australia via...

American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001.

Kanye took me from a kid who listened to music to a kid who lived music.

George McGovern and his supporters committed what, in a two-party system, are capital crimes: they did not compromise, they took hard ideological positions, they alienated a large portion of their party’s traditional supporters, and they...

It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for twenty years.

For hundreds of years Iranians have been migrating to many parts of the world. They took Islamic culture to other parts of the world and established it there.

I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.

I’ve written only two novels, but they’re both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did.

We took ‘BFF’ around to try and take it somewhere else because we were really proud of it, and it had gotten all that critical acclaim, and Twitter fans were going crazy about it.

Several people, not just reviewers, took me to task for writing about what they called the working classes – something I’ve been doing for 40 years. I thought that was contemptible – what do they...

It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating.

I took to the luge when I was very young, but I never imagined that it would become my passion. At 14, I was already competing on artificial tracks.

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago, which is to play records and slow them down to figure...

It took me many years to understand that my identity is more Israeli than Jewish.

I was a psych major in college and I actually owned two white lab rats. I had to train them and I took them home so that’s just kind of missing for me.

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...