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With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in… — Brian Setzer
I am under obligations to most of those advisers for the pains and interest they took in my case; but only to one for an… — William Banting
I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write. — Donna Tartt
So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their… — Donna Tartt
Katey Sagal, you are an incredible actress. You worked on ‘Married with Children,’ the show that changed comedy, ‘Sons of Anarchy,’ the show that took… — Anthony Jeselnik
Dublin was a glorious name in our family and had pleasurable associations of violence …Today I am so at home in Dublin, more than in… — Louis MacNeice
I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it… — Frank Norris
It took me a long time to figure out what Holly Golightly was all about. One night after midnight I was still trying. I don't… — Henry Mancini
I never took any vocal training — Marvin Hamlisch
Satan conquered Jesus on the Cross and took His spirit to the dark regions of hell — Kenneth Copeland
By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium -- by that same right Germany… — Friedrich Engels
Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man eternal life, it… — Ludwig Feuerbach
The Keystone Pipeline decision has taken longer than it took us to defeat Hitler — Heidi Heitkamp
When I took my clothes off in Blue Velvet, I wanted to convey the brutality of sex abuse. I wanted to look like a quartered… — Isabella Rossellini
We took the Bible and prayer out of public schools, and now we're having weekly shootings practically. We had the 60s sexual revolution, and now… — Christine O'Donnell
Get rid of the guns. We had the Second Amendment that said you have the right to bear arms. I haven't seen the British really… — Roger Rosenblatt
I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years. — Jennifer Weiner
Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our… — Patrick Ewing
In ancient times before the divine sojourn of the Savior took place, even to the saints death was terrible; all wept for the dead as… — Athanasius of Alexandria
Our children and grandchildren are going to be mad at us for burning all this oil. It took the Earth 500 million years to create… — Jack Edwards
I took advice from none but the best. I listened, how I listened! That's how I finally became my own expert. — Peggy Guggenheim
In 1968 I ran into Steve Lacy on the street in Rome. I took out my pocket tape recorder and asked him to describe in… — Unknown Author
In the first movement alone, I took note of six pregnancies and at least four miscarriages. — Thomas Beecham
In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal. — Damon Albarn
Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that. — Damon Albarn

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