#took

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. ↗

— Rachael Ray

#birthday #cake #cried #days #four

It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#coming #english #feel #hell #here

I think of these things as obstacles rather than opportunities, because if they were opportunities it means I actually took the business of doing them seriously. To take myself too seriously is the gentle kiss of death. ↗

— Leon Redbone

#because #business #death #doing #gentle

I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise. ↗

— Noel Redding

#best #did #had #i #likewise

It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#america #arrived #bad #company #dreadful

When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars. ↗

— Eddie Redmayne

#appalling #bohemian #bought #existence #guitars

Ninety percent of the time, you're going to hear no. It took me seven years to make 'Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored.' Nobody wanted to see the movie made. I got the movie made. ↗

— Tim Reid

#going #got #hear #i #made

I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted. ↗

— Frederick Reines

#encouraged #i #interest #key #laboratory

First thing I did when I found out I made it into the top 13 is I tried not to faint and you know, I took it all in and I really looked at the crowd and said a big 'thank you'. ↗

— Haley Reinhart

#crowd #did #faint #first #first thing

I believe in energy like dark energies. I believe that when a family moves into a house where six murders took place, there's going to be some bad juju in that house. But then again what the hell is wrong with you to be moving in that house to begin with? ↗

— Ryan Reynolds

#bad #begin #believe #dark #energies