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• It takes us about four or five days to get an album out.

  Buddy Rich

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• A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

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  No matter where life takes me, you’ll find with a smile.

  Mac Miller

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• Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills.

  Joseph Gordon Levitt

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• Anyone that has a job that takes them away from home, I think, can understand the difficulties in maintaining consistency, not only with your family and those you love but with your friends.

  Heath Ledger

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• When a company is facing a problem, it always takes a stance and takes a decision, but at the same time it wants to make sure of what it can learn from it, what enhancements it can make.

  Carlos Ghosn

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• But what I was going to say was, I just figured I’m going to go boldly in the direction of my dreams, say it as Thoreau would say, and just see where it takes me.

  Demetri Martin

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• You don’t need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that’s the only time you have.

  Padma Lakshmi

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• It takes one second to ruin a woman’s life.

  Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy

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  High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

  Charles F. Kettering

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• Movies have takes. But plays are like life – you don’t really get takes.

  Chris Rock

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• No one ever takes my side.

  Chris Noth

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• It takes me a long time to make a big purchase.

  Jessica Chastain

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• Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It’s not as if I sit down and play ‘Fire and Rain’ by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up… the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions.

  James Taylor

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• In this business it takes time to be really good – and by that time, you’re obsolete.

  Cher

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• Every time I think I have something under control, it changes and I don’t have it under control. I think it takes several years to get there. Jade is 19 months old, so right now I’m on alert all the time. And as a mom I think you’re constantly worrying about things.

  Giada De Laurentiis

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• It takes a lot of energy to teach.

  Dabney Wharton Coleman

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• The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow.

  Robert Henry Winborne Welch Jr.

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• Good composition is like a suspension bridge – each line adds strength and takes none away.

  Robert Henri

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• If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over.

  Robert Grosseteste

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