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It took a while to get the support of British people as they wouldn't naturally want to support someone from another country.
My mother's brother is a very good singer. My grandfather took up classical singing lessons and learnt to play the harmonium.
I was bored one day, so my dad took me to this acting school. I liked it more than having fun - I liked it for an actual job.
Children should be able to live a life free from bullying and harassment and it is time that we all took a stand against this.
I do follow the NFL. It took me a while to get back into it, but I do follow it religiously now. Huge Packers and Steelers fan.
I was pretty young, but because of that first record, 'Cole Espanol,' we took our first trip - well, my first trip - to Mexico.
My father's really fluent in French, but I can't speak at all. I actually took it twice in school already and failed both times!
When the Beatles came to America and took me off the map, I thought I would return the favor, and I moved the family to England!
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.
It took me years to realize that 'normal' is actually super boring and that being myself was harder but infinitely more rewarding.
We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil.
My father disowned me and my mother left me. It was difficult but I took Lord Ganesha's and Jesus's name and could pass through it.
I took up boxing to get in shape for filming because it's grueling - all the running, the heat, the yelling, the crying that we do.
I started out being a stand up and writing my own material. That took me to 'Talk Soup,' where I was writing and performing for TV.
I love who I am, and I encourage other people to love and embrace who they are. But it definitely wasn't easy - it took me a while.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.
I was a member of the Fab Five at the University of Michigan, but I was also on the Dean's List there. I took pride in my education.
I've said very openly that the first aspect of my artistry to arrive was writing. It took me a good number of years to find my voice.
My dad just decided that he wanted to race sled dogs, and when he did that, he took us out of Wasilla, and we never really went back.
I took a risk and invested in SM Mall of Asia because I wanted to create something that could contribute to Philippine tourism growth.
I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.
My dad took me to John Kennedy's inauguration when I was 8. We come every time, Republican and Democrat, because of this great country.
Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.
No show would be successful if you took a group of people and just said, 'You're dumb!' over and over. That's not what Broadway's about.
Early in my modeling career, when I was a teenager, I really took care of my skin. I didn't get too much sun exposure, and I moisturized.
When I was ordained as a pastor, I walked away from secular music for seven, eight years. It took me that time to learn that God is love.
If there is one thing that COVID-19 has shown us, it's the little things that we likely took for granted that made our lives seem normal.
I don't own a watch anymore. Literally, that was an addiction. I'm not afraid to admit that. It took me over. My possessions possessed me.
If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you.
I took my mother-in-law to Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors, and one of the attendants said: 'Keep her moving sir; we're stock-taking.'
I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing.
It took a long time, but I have learned that you just can't take anything you want out of life without putting something back in exchange.
My dad died in 1980, and I found out afterwards from mum that my piano lessons, which cost £2 a week, took up nearly a third of his income.
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
It took me a long time to even dare to envision myself as a writer. I was very uncertain and hesitant and afraid to pursue a creative life.
I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.
What a profound privilege to go from one who took the oath from a judge to one who now is in the position to administer the oath as a judge.
I have pictures with Morimoto where I'm all embarrassed and he's so serious, it took me 30 minutes to get up the courage to introduce myself.
I wrote the first draft of 'Madame Bovary' without studying the previous translations, although I gathered them and took the occasional peek.
My mom took all of my behavior personally. Everything I did, she thought it was an act of rebellion against her. But it was just me being me.
I took Meisner for a long time. I use a lot of sense memory and, well, I wouldn't say Method, but I can't really avoid getting into character.
Probably the most formative thing was at the age of four my Granddad took me fishing. That actually became a major part of the rest of my life.
I took up special yoga and a diet from Sreenath Vishnu. And amazingly, I lost 5.5 kgs in 20 days and my husband Mani shed six kilos in a month.
I don't take any of the medications I took when I was younger: antibiotics, antacids, aspirin, asthma inhalers, ulcer medication, allergy shots.
There weren't many plays for me. A lot of my stats came off broken plays, or when I didn't allow the options to play out and just took the shot.
From Rebecca Miller, I took the idea that the director needs to arrive every day an hour ahead of everyone else and walk through the entire day.
My first published novel, 'American Rust,' took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.
Treating people fairly and with civility is not a bad thing... It would be good for our country if political leaders actually took that to heart.
I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. It took me only a few days to correct that impression.