Took Quotes

Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.

As we were told, was presented to him in golden cups… I observed a number of jars, above fifty, brought in, filled with foaming chocolate of which he took some.

I quit law in 1988 to start writing, and it took me 17 years from that point to get a book contract. I guess you can say I was on the slow train.

I took him like the major challenge of my life, and pretty soon I’m beating him and we are pushing each other so hard, so fierce. But out of the arena, we are friends.

Everywhere I look and most of the time I look, I see photographs.

You took a walk on a Sunday afternoon and came to a nice neighborhood, very refined. You saw a small one of these trees through the iron gate leading to someone’s yard and you knew that soon that section of Brooklyn would get to be a tenement district.

And it took me about five years of hit-or-miss auditioning and booking on occasion before I could support myself totally as an actor.

I took a little bit of what I liked and what I had seen throughout the years from everybody that I was entertained by and made it my own.

Jesus took what I deserved so I could get what He deserved.