The Taken Quotes

I never went to school for anything that I have done. I've never taken a class in singing, I never went to school for singing, acting, nothing. All I know is that it's a gift.

I'm so blessed to have been a working actor. If they still would like to make me a superstar, I'm available, but so far, being a working actor has been great. It's taken me everywhere.

America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.

More than anything that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing.

For I desired, as Youth does, to be taken by the hand and hurled into the world.

Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.

After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two years.

I've written books that have taken me fifteen years, from first sentence to last, and some that only take three or four months.

But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.

I think anybody that is going to be taken seriously in [music] industry needs to produce their own original music.

Being creative is having something to sell, or knowing how to sell something, or having sold something. It has taken over what we used to mean by being "wised up" knowing the tricks, the shortcuts.

A threat need not provoke a response if it is not taken up.

ALWAYS chose the road less taken.

I don't know what to do. I only know that it's taken me years to understand that life was pushing me in a direction I didn't want to go in.

When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.

I think musicians oftentimes have the right skill set to be good actors. And with Rihanna, I noticed her and knew of her obviously, and was very taken with her charisma and her confidence.

Chris Addison is a stand-up comic, but his ability to act is extraordinary, to be so natural, I've taken 25 years just getting to that level.

What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great artist?

The ongoing successful treatment of my depression is the single most important positive step I have taken in my life, hence my enthusiasm for the subject.

It's really a lovely feeling to write knowing that failure is taken off the table because if it's bad you just never show it to anyone.

The goal of maximizing the welfare of all may be better achieved by an ethic that accepts our inclinations and harnesses them so that, taken as a whole, the system works to everyone's advantage.

Authority is 20% given and 80% taken...so take it!

I have taken pride in others, never in myself.

The more you read the novella, the more you should wonder, I think, which judgments are to be taken as bedrock.

I wanted impossible things. I wanted my life with her before it all turned bad. What I had been given had been taken away and now I was even less than before.

The nerds have taken over the newsrooms.

For of all hard things to bear and grin, / The hardest is knowing you're taken in.

I tend to want to go quite big in my acting, which you just cannot do in front of a camera. It's taken me a while to learn how to pull it back.

History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.

When journalists come to interview me, it's a part of my life that is exhibited, as if pieces of clothing are being taken off one by one. But it's not very important really.

To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.

He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.

I don't know if human activity is the only cause, but mostly, in great part, it is man who has slapped nature in the face, we have in a sense taken over nature.

Perhaps nothing is more magical then the book. Paper, glue and some words and you are taken away from where you sit, stand, dance, or lean.

We read the [Dracula] scripts, but Jess [De Gouw] and I are completely taken out of the hunts and anything with Van Helsing. We're just living our lives, as our characters.

aken’ is a really difficult project because it was a big surprise for everybody.

I've never taken myself too seriously.

I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.

The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his ... genius.

The 'data' (given) of research are not so much given as taken out of a constantly elusive matrix of happenings. We should speak of capta rather than data.

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.

It had taken years to put themselves back together, and so what if some things didn’t get put back in the right place? At least they could hold themselves up.

Teaching is another area I like to explore. I've had a lot of great role models and people who have taken the time over the years to help me - and the wheel turns.

We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times.

Taken everything I've got, all I've got's this sunny afternoon.

I dont think that any person can fix FEMA. I think FEMA needs a total restructuring. I think it needs to be taken from scratch and redone. The regulations are outdated; the rules are outdated.

If you go into any department store these days, your picture is probably taken 30 times. In London there are 500,000 cameras in public spaces. You have no expectation of privacy in public spaces.

I am being taken care of by a higher being than myself or my coaches or my training staff.

I think Jason Chaffetz was correct to call for an investigation into the Government Ethics Department in the government for the positions that they've taken in this campaign.