#takes

A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent. ↗

— Alice Stone Blackwell

#any #ascent #feeling #finds #guide

It's not just songs and glamour. It's sweat, blood, broken toes, and mistakes... It's life. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#broken #glamour #just #life #mistakes

Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#back #child #childhood #had #having

As much as I want to go out and tour every single day and I'm ready to rip it right now, there's five people in the band, there's five people who've evolved and grown and there's five people who have to get on the same page and want the same things, and it takes a lot to tour. ↗

— Fred Durst

#day #every #every single day #evolved #five

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#behind #curtain #design #graphic #graphic design

Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all. ↗

— Don Bluth

#closes #enormous #enters #everything #film

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#home #lot #marriage #put #takes

I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#children #disease #father #going #i

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#intellectual #knows #man #more #necessary

The Vatican takes your breath away. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#breath #takes #vatican #your