“I'm on a lot of nonprofit boards, but if I didn't enjoy it I wouldn't do it. I haven't yet done anything that's transformational in philanthropy. But I hope at some point to target two or three causes or organizations and really make transformational gifts.” IfsTwoDoneThreeCausesEnjoyHavensOrganizationBoardsTargetPhilanthropyNonprofits Author:David Rubenstein
“If you are not online, people look at you askance. I think in three to four years' time people will look equally askance at you if you haven't got the ability for consumers to buy what they want, where they want and how they want.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantYearsLooksThreeAbilityFourHavensConsumersOnlineFour Years Author:Stuart Rose
“I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall into the 'historic fiction' category. Science fiction is not a favorite genre of mine, though I have greatly enjoyed some of the work of Ursula LeGuin. I haven't read much science fiction so I don't know other sci-fi authors.” KnowsBookFallThreeFictionHavensMinesCoupleScience FictionContemporaryEnjoyedGenreCategoriesRealisticSci FiHistoricRealistic Fiction Author:Lois Lowry
“What you learn when you direct a film, even more so than as a producer, it's a marriage. It's like a relationship with that film so you've got to make sure that it's really something that you want to live with for three years or however long it is. So I haven't found the right thing to marry yet.” WantYearsLongFilmThreeFoundHavensDirectProducersRight ThingThree Years Author:Grant Heslov
“Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far.” TryingEnoughThreeFourAchieveHavensBalanceStonesFiring Author:Andy Goldsworthy
“I had gotten up to two, maybe three, packs (of cigarettes) a day. And my lungs were bothering me and I'd had pneumonia two or three times. And I was also smoking pot, and I decided, well, one of them's got to go. And so I took a pack of Chesterfields and took all the Chesterfields out, rolled up 20 big fat ones and put it in there, and I haven't smoked a cigarette since then.” WellsTwoBigsThreeHavensDecidedFatsBotherSmokingPotCigarettePacksThree TimesLungsPneumoniaSmoking Pot Author:Willie Nelson
“Arsenal haven't won anything for three years, so they're used to success” YearsUsedThreeHavensThree YearsArsenal Author:Glenn Hoddle
“I haven't been one since I did a film called (coughs) Encino Man (laughing). After two or three runs with Pauly Shore, I had enough. Watching this film in 3D as far as rollercoasters go really fills it for me.” MenTwoEnoughRunningFilmThreeLaughingHavensShoreHad Enough Author:Brendan Fraser
“He has so often told me he is madly in love with me, but what does that mean when I haven't had a good word from him in three months?” MeanDoeThreeHavensMonthsThree MonthsGood WordsMadly In Love Author:Eva Braun
“Books are surviving in this intense, fragmented, hyper-accelerated present, and my sense and hope is that things will slow down again and people will want more time for a contemplative life. There is no way people can keep up this pace. No one is happy. Two or three hours to read should not be an unattainable thing, although I hope we get to that stage without needing a corporate sponsored app to hold our hand. The utopian in me has my fingers crossed that we haven't quite figured out the digital future just yet. After all, the one thing we know about people: they always surprise.” PeopleKnowsWayWantShouldTwoBookHandsThreeHoursOne ThingStageHavensSurpriseFingersIntenseCorporateDigitalMore TimePaceSlow DownSurvivingUtopianContemplativeUnattainableAppsHyperFragmentedContemplative LifeFingers Crossed Author:Junot Diaz
“about ten days ago I got started on a new book, and am completely, brazenly devoted to it: my hair is uncut, my letters are unwritten, the house is a shambles, and I sit here as happy as Mrs. Jellaby, though I am in 1836, not Africa. It won't go on like this, I shall fall over some obstacle, and wake out of my dreams with a black eye and broken shins: but while it does last, I daren't interrupt it. I haven't had such a spell of writing for nearly three years.” WritingYearsDoeBookDreamEyeLastsFallThreeHouseBlackHavensHairBrokenGoes OnTenLettersObstaclesSpellsThree YearsDevotedNew BooksUnwrittenBlack EyesShambles Author:Sylvia Townsend Warner
“The only advice I would give Christians entering the world of arts: give yourself a period of time, maybe three or four years. If you haven't made it in your chosen art form, dump it.” IfsWorldGivingYearsArtMadeChristianFormThreeFourAdviceHavensPeriodsChosenMade ItFour YearsEnteringDump Author:Cliff Richard
“I must have played every college and university at least three times, and that goes for most of the clubs. I'd be on the road six days a week, go home and change bags, and then be gone for another six days.” HomeThreeGoneWeekHavensCollegeSixUniversityClubsBagsThree TimesColleges And Universities Author:Richie Havens
“I'm an extremely slow worker, very unprolific. It can take me weeks to do a three-minute song, or at least to make it sound, in my mind, like I haven't written it. That's when I'm satisfied.” MindSongThreeSoundWrittenWeekMinutesHavensWorkersSatisfiedTake Me Author:Nick Lowe
“I haven't given it (achieving 3,000 hits) much thought. I was taught a certain approach, how to come to the ballpark. I try not to do too much thinking about things like that. In this society we measure success in different ways. Three thousand (hits) represents success over a career, not a season. It'll be nice to get to that point.” ThinkingWayTryingDifferentCertainThreeGivenCareersToo MuchNiceAchieveHavensTaughtThousandApproachSeasonsDifferent WaysBeing NiceThis SocietyMeasure Of SuccessBallparks Author:Cal Ripken, Jr.
“In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.” IfsKnowsFirstsThreeLostAudienceMinutesHavensTheatre Author:Om Puri
“Traffic counting was very boring and cold to sit out on the streets of New Haven in five pairs of pants - well, that's an exaggeration; it was three pairs of pants - in November for hours and hours clicking buttons counting which cars go left, right, and forward.” WellsThreeLeftHoursFiveStreetsCarHavensColdBoringPairsPantsButtonsTrafficCountingNovemberExaggeration Author:John Hodgman
“Early in my career it was very important that I gain the reputation. I haven't been on the road in two or three years, but when I say tickets are on sale, I know they're going to be gone, even if my movie bombed or my TV show sucked.” IfsKnowsYearsTwoImportantShowsThreeCareersGoneHavensTvsGainsReputationThree YearsTicketsTv Shows Author:Chris Rock
“If you're going to invest a valuable asset (like time), go ahead and make it productive. Use a postit or two, or some index cards or a highlighter. Not to write down stuff so you can forget it later, but to create marching orders. It's simple: if three weeks go by and you haven't taken action on what you've written down, you wasted your time.” IfsWritingTwoUseActionOrderThreeStuffSimpleForgetBusinessTakenWrittenWeekHavensValuableCardsProductiveAssetsForget It Author:Seth Godin
“The weird thing about drama school is that you train for three years for one thing and then more often than not, it's something that you haven't trained for that you end up doing.” YearsEndsSchoolThreeOne ThingHavensDramaTrainThree YearsWeird Things Author:Tom Ellis
“A lot of college graduates approach me about becoming screenwriters. I tell them, 'Do not become a screenwriter, become a journalist,' because journalists go into worlds that are not their own. Kids who go to Hollywood write coming-of-age stories for their first scripts, about what happened to them when they were sixteen. Then they write the summer camp script. At the age of twenty-three they haven't produced anything, and that's the end of the career.” WorldWritingFirstsEndsStoriesKidsAgeThreeCareersHappenedHavensCollegeBecomingApproachSummerHollywoodTwentiesScriptsJournalistComing Of AgeCampsGraduatesSixteenScreenwritersCollege GraduatesSummer Camp Author:Nora Ephron
“You write a screenplay and then everybody is going to want to get in on it and we have to figure that out. I've written three screenplays that are at studios and I still haven't been making them yet so there is always something that is either going to trip something up or maybe get another pass.” WantWritingStillsThreeWrittenHavensFiguresStudiosScreenplays Author:Craig Brewer
“I have hundreds and hundreds of songs waiting to get on albums, but I don't know about the three-month radio tours and if I'll be interested in that. I haven't figured it out, but I will definitely be doing music, whether it is independent or with a major record label.” IfsKnowsSongThreeWaitingRecordsHavensMonthsMajorsIndependentRadioAlbumsLabelsThree MonthsRecord Labels Author:Jewel
“We haven't started playing it live yet but we're going to. And then 'Warpaint' is a song that's really, really close to me because it's actually - we've had that song for many years now and it's changed so many times, it's been through every reincarnation of our band with every drummer, with sometimes with me playing drums, it was when we were a three-piece, every incarnation of the band that we've had we have played that song.” YearsSometimesSongThreePiecesHavensChangedBandReincarnationIncarnationDrummerPlaying Drums Author:Theresa Wayman
“You know, I'm allowed to f--king date, I haven't seen this guy in three years. We're in the middle of a divorce. For a woman, she has to wait. For a man, who cares? That's what it's painted as.” KnowsMenYearsCareGuyThreeWaitingMiddleHavensKingsDivorceThree YearsWho CaresThis Guy Author:Khloe Kardashian
“Some patients are still having insomnia, but it's seems worse to them than actually it is. So, if they say they're sleep deprived, they haven't slept at all in three days; if we actually take them into a lab, most of the time we actually do see they're sleeping on and off here and there.” IfsStillsSeemsThreeSleepHavensPatientDeprivedInsomniaHere And ThereLabsAnd OffSleep Deprived Author:Shelby Harris
“I'd say I got three or four offers for films that had female directors, so in my career I haven't had that opportunity before. That's exciting.” FilmThreeOpportunityCareersFourHavensOffersDirectorsFemaleExciting Author:Natalie Portman
“I haven't seen Iowa people get so excited since the night Frank Gotch and Strangler Lewis lay on the mat for three and a half hours without moving a muscle.” PeopleMovingNightThreeHoursHalfHavensLaysExcitedMusclesFrankHalf HoursIowa Author:Meredith Willson
“I co-edited an anthology called Interfictions with Delia Sherman and wrote a short scholarly book on three women poets called Voices from Fairyland: The Fantastical Poems of Mary Coleridge, Charlotte Mew, and Sylvia Townsend Warner. So I've been busy, but I haven't had time to write a novel.” WritingBookThreeVoiceNovelHavensPoetBusyMaryAnthologyCharlotteEditedScholarly Author:Theodora Goss
“Doing reality TV is hard. You get lost. You are shooting three months before anybody sees it. So you are past [the emotions]. Then when it airs and the public sees it, they react and it drags you back. It feels you have grown, but then you suddenly feel like you haven't moved at all.” FeelsHardRealityPastThreeLostEmotionAirHavensTvsLike YouMonthsMovedShootingDragThree MonthsReality TvLost You Author:Michel'le
“I honestly haven't seen a lot people since we wrapped, really, but it's one of those things when you don't see someone for three months and then you pick right back up where you left off. I think Twilight is very special circumstance, and a special thing to be a part of, so there's this weird connection to have.” PeopleThinkingThreeLeftSpecialHavensMonthsCircumstancesPicksConnectionsHonestlyTwilightThree MonthsSpecial Things Author:Ashley Greene
“There might be two or three songs I'm trying out. I've been singing these songs (on the new album) in the studio, but I haven't really done them live. It's intimate to sing them in a studio. Now, I've got to be on a stage and be in front of a lot of people.” PeopleTryingTwoDoneMightSongThreeStageFrontsHavensSingingAlbumsStudiosIntimate Author:Kristin Chenoweth
“I was just in a few episodes the first season [ of Empire]. They didn't kill me, but I haven't been back in season two or three. I don't know if they have plans for me or not. But I enjoyed working on it. And I think it's a really talented group of actors and, boy, very enterprising to try and shoot those every week, you know, with musical numbers and all that stuff.” IfsThinkingKnowsTryingFirstsTwoThreeActorsStuffNumbersBoysPlansGroupsWeekHavensSeasonsMusicalEnjoyedEmpiresEpisodesKill MeEnterprising Author:Judd Nelson