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...

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...