I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
Circulating through the children's ward and seeing terminally ill kids, heads shaved, smiling and having a ball despite the tubes and needles sticking into them, I thought: What do I have to worry about? If God takes me, at least I've lived for 35 years.
A hit show takes Hollywood magic indeed, but it also takes a lot of math and science, plus the study of polls and trends to make and sell a TV show.
Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.
If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
If you look at where the tried and true of Silicon Valley VC's are investing, it's in people who understand what it takes, who've been through it and have a network of people they can tap and resources to pull together.
That is someone who follows the teachings of the nonviolent Jesus and takes the gospel personally, and then pays the price. I fall into that category.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
I think everybody has to be better, right from me out. Everybody has to step up their games for us to be successful here. I've been lucky to be on some good teams over the years and that's what it takes, everybody contributing night after night.
Having regrets and things, it just takes your time away.
Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived by them.
It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.
I am the kind of person that takes everything as is and then look at it from the outside looking in.
When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I'm going to do a big scene that's dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
After they killed Uday and Qusay, the focus centered on Saddam: Find him, kill him, capture him, whatever it takes. To me, it was a false sense of security: If we get Saddam, we're going to win this war.
Becoming an actress takes a lot longer than being a star. I don't want to be a star. I want to be an actress. I want to build a career.
I don't think I could have tackled 'The Pura Principle' until now. It takes me about twenty years to come to term with any difficult period in my life, to get enough of a grasp on it to fictionalize it.
I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.
Because actually it's really hard to get things made. It takes years. To fight the fights you inevitably have to fight, even when you've produced Harry Potter, you'd better have the commitment and the passion to knock down walls, not take no for an answer.
Of course, success takes you where your character can't sustain you.
My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
If any of you have seen my shows, you know that I don't skimp on them and the same is true for the gym. We spend what it takes to make a globally first-class gym.
When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.
Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
I think in a way I was probably completely naive about what it takes to make something become a hit.
It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.
It's always special when you're young and you have a vision for something you want to do, and somebody takes a moment to connect with you. Now if there are kids on the set I try to talk to them for a bit.
In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article.
In films, the fact that you can always do a scene again takes a load off your mind, enabling you to strive for perfection, which I always wanted.
The music I love to sing would have to be gospel - it just uplifts me, it takes me to a really good place.
If you ask people do you think that government should spend less money than what it takes in, most people agree with that.
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Melanie is more of a disciplinarian with the little girl than me, probably because it's my first baby. She gets everything easy from Papa. I am more weak. She takes advantage of me.
I think we've all worked with that person at the office who takes themselves and their job so seriously.
