I Quotes
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“It took me longer to get through this site, than to get outside at Waimea.”
“It took me many years to realize that it's hard to live in this world. I don't mean the mechanics of living, because for most of us, our hearts will beat, our lungs will take in oxygen, without us doing anything at all to tell them to. For most of us, mechanically, physically, it's harder to die than it is to live. But still we try to die. We drive too fast down winding roads, we have sex with strangers without wearing protection, we drink, we use drugs. We try to squeeze a little more life out of our lives. It's natural to want to do that. But to be alive in the world, every day, as we are given more and more and more, as the nature of "what we can handle" changes and our methods for how we handle it change, too, that's something of a miracle.”
Source: Transcendent Kingdom
“It took me many years to understand that my identity is more Israeli than Jewish.”
“It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating”
“It took me only a few seconds to come up with three possible scenarios regarding the [lie detector.]
[...]
Whichever of the three was right, the audience couldn’t know for sure. [...] But all of them would be watching me, and judging me based on how I reacted.
In other words, the only real lie detector onstage, the only one people would really trust, was me.”
Source: Sal and Gabi Break the Universe
“It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.”
“It took me quite a long time to realise that my maleness was cutting off certain areas for Yoko [Ono]. She's a red hot liberationistand was quick to show me where I was going wrong, even though it seemed to me that I was just acting naturally. That's why I'm always interested to know how people who claim to be radical treat women.”
“It took me quite a while to even admit that I was a feminist because I was ignorant of what it meant to be a feminist. I grew up believing in equality - believing that women and men were created equal and that we could be stronger together - but I didn't know that made me a feminist.”
“It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.”
“It took me seven years of writing before I published my first story. And then, the publications trickled in over the next five years.”
“It took me seven years to develop the diagnosis and treatment for Magee’s Disease from the point I became disabled with it.”
Source: Magee’s Disease
“It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.”
“It took me several minutes to persuade myself to watch the news. During which time I gave myself a stern talking to. That turned into me considering a local pub that would be the perfect place to drown my sorrows in a barrel of tequila, though after much introspection, I scratched the idea just to avoid needless drunken embarrassment. Then, admittedly, I contemplated pouncing Andrew for another steamy romp session. Despite its proven potency to assuage stress and tension, I decided now was not the time to indulge in explosive sexcapades.”
Source: Fallen Legion
“It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.”
“It took me six novels before I felt confident of my voice as a writer.”
“It took me six years to be comfortable modeling a swimsuit.”
“It took me sixteen years to write.”
“It took me sixty tears of the rough life to get ready to write a novel. When I started I was on fire.”
Source: C-Bar
“It took me so long to get to the music, where that was what I wanted to do all my life. It took me so long to realise that it wasn't really movies that I wanted to do, but to be on stage singing.”
“It took me some time to join the various streams of making music that was technically good and making music that made me feel good.”
“It took me some time to learn that although every one secretly cherishes the ambition to be 'put in a book,' no one is ever satisfied with anything save incense, butter, and honey, unrelieved by salt or spice.”
“It took me some time to realize I wasn’t experiencing my experience.”
Source: The Truth of This Life: Zen Teachings on Loving the World as It Is
“It took me some time to sleep last night, I lowered the temp of AC that it might help but still it took a while, while coming back from Fajr I saw a street sweeper sleeping on the road near the wall of a big house behind a parked car, it was 29C without any breeze and he was in deep sleep with snoring loud enough to be audible 10 feet away, surely our perception of things which will bestow us with peace is clouded”
“It took me some twenty-plus years to really learn how to program.”
“It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I preferred instead. Not power-ridden monuments, but individual buildings which tell a quieter story: the artist's studio, or the Belle Epoque house built by a forgotten financier for a just-remembered courtesan.”
“It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.”
“It took me ten years to write The Night Journal, so that was a big ordeal.”
“It took me the bulk of my twenties to write one book about a family of alligator wrestlers. Whereas somebody like Steve Martin is releasing his latest banjo symphony, having just completed another movie and acclaimed, best-selling novel.”
“It took me thirty years to find myself,
I had little wealth,
But I had my health”
“It took me thirty-six years; and, in some fifty stories, ranging in length from short-shorts to novels, I think I must have touched, in one way or another, on every aspect of computers and computerization. And (mark this!) I did it without ever knowing anything at all about computers in any real sense. To this day, I don't. I am totally inept with machinery... on my typewriter I turn out books at the contemptible rate of one a month”
“It took me three weeks to stuff the turkey. I stuffed it through the beak.”
“It took me three weeks to write the 'Rhapsody in Blue.' I had always wanted to write something blue and Paul Whiteman inspired.”
“It took me three years to learn to dress in the American way, especially in winter. That was just like me. I barely wear socks even now.”
“It took me three, four years, to get from my first film to my second film, banging on doors, trying to get people to give me a chance. Writing, struggling, with no money in the bank, working as an editor on the side. Working as a cameraman on the side. Getting little jobs, eking out a living. Trying to stay alive, and pushing a script that nobody wanted.”
“It took me time to adjust and to realise it was not going to happen like it did in the juniors.”
“It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.”
“It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.”
“It took me to about maybe 16, 17 or 18 or something to realise I was absolutely useless at everything else except for playing guitar and writing words”
“It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?”
“It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.”
“It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.”
“It took me two relapses,” I shared one evening at an AA meeting, “but I had my last drink in 2002 after I stared down my fears. Some of you may have been dealt a bad hand in life in one way or another, but that doesn’t mean you can’t reshuffle the cards.”
Source: A Saint and a Sinner: The Rise and Fall of a Beloved Catholic Priest
“It took me two years to give him all of my heart, and he threw it away in one night.”
Source: Seven Years
“It took me until my late twenties to finally understand that so much of what I believed, or of what I thought I believed, was just youthful imprinting. We learn to speak by imitating the speech of the adults around us, and in the process of that learning we wind up also imitating their opinions, until we’ve deluded ourselves into thinking that the words we’re using are our own.”
Source: Permanent Record
“It took me weeks to get over this fictional pain.”
Source: The Siren
“It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.”
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom
“It took me years after stopping the cocaine before I was able to enjoy a sunrise and enjoy the sound of birds.”
“It took me years and years of trial efforts to work out that there is absolutely no knitting triumph I can achieve that my husband will think is worth being woken up for.”
Source: At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
“It took me years to actually get comfortable on the stage. I prefer the intimacy of screen; it comes easier to me. In theater, you have to be louder and bigger - that was harder for many years in my teens. But now Ive conquered that. I eat up the stage. I love it.”
“It took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a shrimp cocktail. I like oysters, but fried.”