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The game really started in 1969 with Pot Black, but in 1970, along came Alex Higgins and the game took off.
No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
When I was starting out, William Goldman took me under his wing, and he's still the person I show pages to.
Regret is the worst human emotion. If you took another road, you might have fallen off a cliff. I'm content.
Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.
My whole career has been from scratch, so I never took it for granted that people care and support what I do.
I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.
It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be something you're not.
Subconsciously, Islam took over me, so it was like eighty or ninety percent of the fabric of the person I was.
When I was 15, I got super into Eric Clapton. My father took notice of this and got me a guitar for Christmas.
My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.
It took me a good two-and-a-half to three years to write 'Dhobi Ghat' and more importantly be satisfied with it.
However God had it planned, I'm rockin' with how he do it. He took the steering wheel and I'm letting him drive.
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
As a child, I was raised by native Hawaiian elders - three old women who took care of me while my parents worked.
I'm not a businesswoman... I never looked after my negatives and you need that to prove you took the photographs.
When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race.
I took on the role of CEO, which involves directing the Management Team and overall day-to-day operations of 500.
Always remember, the goals that we have achieved pale in comparison to the daily commitments it took to get there.
The home run took a while to sink in because all I could think of was, 'We beat the Yankees! We beat the Yankees.'
I'm self-taught, and fake eyelashes definitely took the longest to master. I glued my eyes shut at least 15 times.
It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
I've been doing the Vietnamese nail lady impressions since my mom first took me to get my nails done when I was 12.
I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off.
As a doctor who took care of patients for 25 years, I saw the problems with America's health care system every day.
I kind of feel like God took away Metro Station and the greatness there so I could settle down and have my love life.
After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn't even go to the classes.
Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right.
I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.
My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
Over 17 years, I took on banks, landlords, real estate firms, local governments, anybody who treated anybody unfairly.
David Letterman is the best late-night talk show host right now, hands down, and has been since he first took the desk.
One time, I was going to be in L.A. for 10 days for a business conference, and I took eight different pairs of sandals.
I always feel that in politics, you have a bridle on. Well, I took the bridle off. And I tell you, it felt pretty good.
I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.
I did 'Love Letter' and 'Write Me Back,' and those were fun albums for me to do because they took me back to music I love.
Cutting to featherweight took months of intense weight cutting and training. Going to lightweight, I can fight more often.
When we was making a song called 'Bring Da Ruckus,' we took the snare, and we put it in an elevator shaft and recorded it.
I did not come to Congress to impeach the President. But I took an oath to protect our country and defend the Constitution.
I did not try to conform to anybody's ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it.
The writing became a hobby in the background: it took a back seat to parenthood and being a person and being a human being.
The ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriously.
I would willingly give fifty thousand crowns to be able to say that I took Paris without costing the life of one single man.
I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!
If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.
All my films are shot on hand-held cameras. These cameras took five years to build and had to be light enough to be carried.