I Quotes
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“It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it.”
“It took me 20 years to learn I couldn't tune too well. And by that time I was too rich to care.”
“It took me 35 years of being involved at a decent level of football to become manager at a great club like Celtic.”
“It took me 36 years to be able to be by myself and like it.”
“It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.”
“It took me 40 years to write my first book.”
“It took me 42 years to write this song, and 5 minutes to sing it."
[On The Heart of the Matter, during the Eagles' Hell Freezes Over tour.]”
“It took me 43 years to finally realise that men can lie with conviction even when caught red-handed.”
Source: Reham Khan
“It took me a beat down to execute you Angel but the pleasure will be all mines! - Warden Pinnacle From the book Framed: The Second Book Of The Thousand Years War.”
“It took me a bit to realize how big the changes have been in the last decade. In so many places - electricity from solar and wind is cheaper than electricity from fossil fuels, and now the batteries are coming down in costs very quickly. So it's very exciting news that needed to be told.”
“It took me a couple of months to realize I was in love with her. Well, probably not to realize it. More like to admit it. And when I did, I knew that was why I had chosen to stay away from her. I love her enough to want her to be happy and safe and successful, and all that other shit. I want her to have everything she wants in life. - Nash”
Source: Everything for Us
“It took me a few seconds to draw it, but it took me 34 years to learn how to draw it in a few seconds.”
“It took me a few years to realize I might want to get into acting as a profession.”
“It took me a few years to realize that throwing harder wasn't always better.”
“It took me a full year of black eyes and a bruised and battered tailbone to learn how to do a crippler in the half-pipe. It was a trick that no one else was really doing, and it was scary! But I stuck with it, and one day, it finally clicked. The crippler has been my signature trick ever since, and it's what helped me be so successful in competition.”
“It took me a lifetime to realizethings don't get lost if they don't have value- you don't miss what you don't care about.”
Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes
“It took me a lifetime.”
Source: Pablo Picasso: the time with Francoise Gilot
“It took me a little while, but I learned to see my "time-outs" as necessities, not luxuries, and to be vigilant about making room for them in my life. Without them, I found it almost impossible to provide the kind of welcoming, accepting home experience that Nathan and all my children needed.”
Source: Different: The Story of an Outside-the-Box Kid and the Mom Who Loved Him
“It took me a long time and a lot of heartache to realize that just because you love someone doesn’t mean they deserve it.”
“It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.\”
Source: Shantaram: A Novel
“It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.”
Source: Invisible Man
“It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.”
“It took me a long time to be as brave in my personal life as I was in my professional life to be brave in love means opening yourself up to the possibility of heartbreak.”
“It took me a long time to be convinced that marriage was right for me because I've come from a long line of broken marriages. My parents divorced, and I had two broken marriages myself.”
“It took me a long time to discover your weakness, Albus Potter. I thought it was pride, I thought it was the need to impress your father, but then I realised your weakness was the same as your father's - friendship.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two
“It took me a long time to figure out that real big-time success comes from taking lots of small, ordinary steps in the right direction. And you can't ever take the next step until you take the first.”
“It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character.”
“It took me a long time to find my voice as a singer, and I'm happy that I did.”
“It took me a long time to find out that I was born to be an actor. It was the last thing on my list, although my list was very small. I didn't know what to do. But kids weren't supposed to know what to do back then; we were all cute and we'd find out what we'd do later in life.”
“It took me a long time to get around to marriage, principally because I felt that women always wanted to have fun, and that was not my interest at all. It would interfere with my reading. That's really the truth.”
Source: A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
“It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected.”
“It took me a long time to get to a position where I can feel that, with my art, I'm capable of saying what I need to say, and once I finish it, I can sit back and say, "It's done, and I'm okay with that. People can judge it good or bad, and it doesn't matter. I'm okay with it because I said something I needed to say." That's a really hard place to get, as an artist.”
“It took me a long time to get to where I'm at, in my career and as a man. I was going through my trials and tribulations in life, and it gave me the strength to tackle things that have come my way.”
“It took me a long time to get used to the reality that my grandmother had passed away. Wherever I was, in the house, in the garden, out on the fields, her face always appeared so clearly to me.”
“It took me a long time to learn and realize and internalize the fact that everyone feels fear. Even your heroes feel fear.”
Source: Worth Defending: How Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Saved My Life
“It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.”
“It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad, they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.”
Source: A Virtuous Woman
“It took me a long time to put it to use in things, but the name of my publishing company is Nine Music, and "Red" became my theme song.”
“It took me a long time to reach the bottom and it went through various stages. I went from drugs into an alcohol stage. For a while, one feels, "Ah, I've kicked drugs," but what I discovered was I had another addiction instead.”
“It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.”
“It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble. But it seemed more important to me to share the vitality of Aikido and the vitality of Zen training with people, even though it would be a smaller number of people, it seemed to give them something that could last and improve their lives.”
“It took me a long time to realise that I was a girl as a teenager. At that point I never really believed it. I looked like a boy for a long time. Now, finally, I feel like a woman.”
“It took me a long time to realise that there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you. The one that writes you is dangerous. You go where you don’t want to go. You look where you don’t want to look.”
Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“It took me a long time to realize that being a girl is so much more powerful than being a guy, but I really saw myself as boy for a long while.”
“It took me a long time to realize that distance can ruin even the best of intentions.”
“It took me a long time to realize that football isn't martyrdom, but a game that's enjoyable, and one in which getting better at it is supposed to be fun. Perhaps it would have been better if I had understood this as a young man.”
“It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.”
Source: James Cameron: Interviews
“It took me a long time to realize the difference between the people we are drawn to and the people who are good for us.”
“It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.”
Source: The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel
“It took me a long time to stop thinking that someone else knew what a great painting was. I was never sure.”