The Taken Quotes

I love walking onto the set and the blindfold is taken off and then everything I do is fresh and in the moment. That's why I loved working with Darren Aronofsky.

Far from having taken any positive step, I have not yet even fommed any resolution.

I've never taken a role where I don't like a person on the page. Sometimes there are changes that need to be made.

I've never taken a role where I don't like a person on the page.

What greater restoratives have we poor mortals than a good meal taken in the company of loving friends?

If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I don't love to write. That would be blissful.

Sometimes fear made you angry. Perhaps after years anger cooled, like a sword taken from a forge. Perhaps in the end you were left with something very cold and very sharp.

I think this is pretty clear, but maybe not to everybody: Despite the fact that the work is personal or taken from life, it's not about me telling my personal story.

I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a portrait from photographs of somebody I didn't know.

Obviously, it has taken time to work with the players around me and with so many new faces coming in the summer, in a way it's been more difficult.

If one attempts to achieve deity or to have the holy, he is thrown back; he is refused. His language is taken from him. He can no longer even communicate. That's the Tower of Babel.

Should I ever again sink into illness, I'm sure I'll remember Eldric. I'll remember he cared for me. I'll remember that someone had at least taken the time to touch my face.

When I look back on my knee-jerk reactions now, I realize I should have just taken a breath.

Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, we shall, in an emotional sense, acquire an additional dimension.

Sometimes I feel like my childhood has been taken away from me just a tiny bit. But if you want to achieve your goals, you have to sacrifice some things.

You are complete. Completion has taken place in you eons ago. Accept yourself. Enjoy yourself. This time will never be again, so fulfill the moment with your own self-joy.

I just felt that it was my responsibility, since so many people had taken the time to help me along, to do the same for others.

A student of mine is an actor, he used to go into these interviews and sometimes not get the part. He was "taken out". Someone would use power in a way that would cause him not to succeed

Many sections are taken up with political discussions and how the way of the ruler, the merchant, the householder, and the army interact with the Tao.

Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical.

In meditation, we are going back into the light. All our pain will be taken away, our frustration.

We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: "Give me thatin sacrifice"--and we give it.

Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.

Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

The information that follows is taken primarily...from government hearings and reports published from various Senate and House committees.

I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me.

Most of these pictures, taken while travelling, were developed on the mantelpiece of a hotel room, which proves that the method is easy enough to carry out.

I wanted to be taken out of myself.

My career has kind of taken on a life of its own.

People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.

I have taken a break from the media spotlight for the past few years.

We must fight for what we want or it will be taken from us.

If only Paris and the Harpies had gotten along. But Promiscuity had taken one look at the beautiful women and deemed them “too much effort.

A modest dose of self-love is entirely healthy - who would want to live in a world where everyone hated themselves? But taken too far it soon becomes poisonous.

It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling.

A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.

You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.

Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.

I think it's the most responsible thing you can do, to have kids. It's not something to be taken lightly. I don't have that gene that people have to replicate.

I doubt anybody gets taken seriously for very long. I'll be on some reality show in about six years going, Hey, I had a great year in 2006.

When you've been used to doing things, and they've been taken away from you, it's as if your hands had been cut off, and you felt the fingers as are of no use to you.

A new breeze is blowing--and a nation refreshed by freedom stands ready to push on: there is new ground to be broken, and new action to be taken.

There were no ill language, if it were not ill taken.

Amiens was taken by the Fox, and retaken by the Lion.

An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.

Citties are taken by the eares.

Presents of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers.

I believe that there are certain things that could be taken care of that you don't need a strong political background in.

Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial

I would say I have taken substantive action to make things easier for people.