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“When I look back on my career - if that's what it is - it looks a bit like a crazy quilt, and I think it's just really because, when one job has finished, I've never really been in a position where I had three or four options.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Jobs Three Bits Careers Four Crazy Position Finished Quilts

Author:Alfred Molina

“You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.”

Knows Stories Kids Three Idols Three Times American Idol

Author:Barry Manilow

“Now there are two or three teams who are very ethical in their outlook who have opened up the economic benefits and that is probably going to be a turning point in the sport.”

Two Three Sports Team Economic Benefits Ethical Outlook Turning Points

Author:David Millar

“I'm a yarnaholic. That means I have more yarn stashed away than any one person could possibly use in three or four lifetimes. There's something inspiring about yarn that makes me feel I could never have enough.”

Feels Mean Persons Enough Use Three Four Lifetime Yarn

Author:Debbie Macomber

“Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.”

Inspirational Three Liberty Fishes Smell Guests Fish Tanks House Guests Cute Funny Uninvited Guests

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Other times you can get showy for three minutes, and that's OK with certain films. But that isn't right with an Ang Lee movie, you have to fit right in. You have to understand Ang, respect him and be part of the team and not be in charge of it - he is in charge of it.”

Film Certain Three Team Minutes Fit Showy

Author:Dennis Muren

“I thought a circus environment would be an interesting venue to explore, where you didn't just have one tent with three rings and a show going on but where you could explore different things in different tents.”

Different Shows Would Be Three Interesting Environment Rings Different Things Circus Tents Venues

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.”

War Inspiration Motivational Action Moving Three Attitude Class Society Mankind Enlightenment Divided Total War Arabian

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“I wanna do movies that in ten years time people will respect me for, as an actor. So if I do take two years off or three years off, the next movie I have that comes out you want people to go 'ooh, that's Frankie Muniz's new movie, it's gonna be a good movie cause he's in it.”

People Ifs Want Years Two Three Next Actors Causes Ten Two Years Three Years Good Movie Respect Me

Author:Frankie Muniz

“There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.”

“There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.”

Source: Representative selections: with introduction, bibliography, and notes

“To be honest, because there's loud music in my ears probably three hours a day, between sound check and the show, I listen to podcasts more than I listen to music on the road.”

Shows Three Sound Hours Honest Ears Checks Being Honest Loud Listening To Music Loud Music

Author:St. Vincent

“But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.”

Knows Writing Long Book Enough Three Four New Directions

Author:Daniel Woodrell

“I've bumped into at least three people in town who all insist 'Winter's Bone' is about them.”

People Three Towns Winter Bones

Author:Daniel Woodrell

“I've been lucky enough to kiss three James Bonds on screen: Pierce Brosnan, George Lazenby and Daniel Craig.”

Enough Three Lucky Kissing Screens Pierce

Author:Olivia Williams

“There's this absurd situation on a movie set where your trailer's here and the set is here and the lunch tent is here, and you're not allowed to get yourself from these three places.”

Three Situation Absurd Lunch Tents Trailers Movie Sets

Author:Olivia Williams

“The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?”

Ifs Three Four Written Extraordinary Honestly Live By Ancestor Anchors Paragraph Written Word

Author:Randy Wayne White

“To make it more familiar to me, I ended up treating my swordplay scenes like choreography. So it was, 'One and two and three and four and five, and turn and step and down and up and lunge.”

Two Turns Three Steps Five Four Scene Down And Familiar Choreography

Author:Catherine Zeta-Jones

“Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.”

Writing Years Remember Three Type Grandmother Three Years Electric Florida My Grandmother Visiting Typewriters Ibm Three Year Olds

Author:Gabrielle Zevin

“Indeed, the FHA was born out of the Great Depression, which was also caused in significant part by a foreclosure crisis. Mortgages in the early 1930s were mostly three- to five-year 'bullet' loans, which did not amortize and were due in full at maturity.”

Years Three Born Five Crisis Dues Significant Maturity Five Years Bullets Loan Mortgage Great Depression 1930s Foreclosure Dodging Bullets

Author:Mark Zandi

“I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I can concentrate on writing. My small theory is that to write for three hours, you need to feel like you have three days. To write for three days, you need to feel like you've got three weeks, and so on.”

Needs Feels Writing Trying I Can Three Hours Week Theory Like You Distraction Defence Procrastinating Spades

Author:Markus Zusak

“I think we all look for clues that we are not utterly alone... Clues we find in literature and paintings and music and even someone’s eyes; clues that demonstrate that someone else has felt the same indescribable feelings, seen the same things or passed by the spot even if it was by candlelight three hundred years ago. It means everything, like finding footprints in the sand of a deserted island.”

Source: Losing Julia

“My first book was called 'Buried Dreams,' about a serial-killer, which was probably about ten years ahead of the serial-killer curve. It was a national bestseller, but it was three years of living in the sewer of this guy's mind.”

Years Mind Firsts Book Dream Guy Three Ten Buried Three Years Killers Curves This Guy Serials Serial Killer Sewers

Author:Tim Cahill

“I play a lot of charity golf mainly. I'm a bandit 18 if I play two or three times a week.”

Ifs Two Play Three Week Golf Charity Three Times Bandits

Author:Eric Bristow

“My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese.”

Three Half Mom Dad My Dad My Mom Quarters Lebanese

Author:Tom Shadyac

“I've been on a show before where I was on a billboard and then, after like three or four weeks, they took the billboard down and replaced it with nothing. Took my face down and put a white board up.”

Shows Faces Three White Four Week Down And Boards Replaced Billboards

Author:Matthew Perry

“The optimum frequency with which comedians should do a series is every year. I do one every three years. My audience is literally dying off.”

Should Years Three Audience Dying Series Comedian Three Years Frequency Optimum

Author:Alexei Sayle

“I’ve never met anyone who made it with a chick because they owned a Tom Waits album. I’ve got all three, and it’s never helped me.”

Made Three Waiting Mets Albums Made It Toms Chicks

Author:Tom Waits

“Coalition forces have encountered serious violence in some areas of Iraq. Our military commanders report that this violence is being insticated by three groups.”

Three Force Violence Groups Military Serious Areas Iraq Reports Commanders Coalitions

Author:George W. Bush

“I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went to the West Bank and Gaza Strip because I wanted to see what three generations of occupation had done to Palestinian society. I found a lot more hopelessness and despair in Palestine.”

Years Done Wanted Three Found Generations Despair West Iraq Occupation Palestinian Hopelessness Palestine Gaza Three Generations Gaza Strip

Author:Michael Franti

“Landowners and influential men of all kinds, especially members of political councils, ought to set an example to the people. The young members of rich families should offer themselves for military service. If not one of two sons, at least one of three sons should be ready to do so.”

People Ifs Men Should Kind Two Young Political Three Rich Military Example Son Ready Ought Offers Members All Kinds Council Influential Military Service Rich Family Three Sons

Author:Chiang Kai-shek

“Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing?”

Trying Doe Art Artist Three Asking Photographer Appropriate Modest

Book:Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

Source: Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

“And by the Sacred Parchment, I swear that if I reveal the secrets of The Stonecutters, may my stomach become bloated and my head be plucked of all but three hairs”

Ifs May Three Secret Hair Sacred Stomach Swear

Author:Homer

“I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.”

Knows Persons Three Hours Ten Kill Me

Author:Lars von Trier

“Our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in "muchness" and "manyness," he will rest satisfied.”

Ifs Three Majors Crowds Satisfied Noise Engaged Three Things Adversaries

Book:Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth

Source: Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth

“People who are lonely and depressed are three to 10 times more likely to get sick and die prematurely than those who have a strong sense of love and community. I don’t know any other single factor that affects our health - for better and for worse - to such a strong degree.”

People Knows Dies Three Strong Community Degrees Lonely Sick Factors

Author:Dean Ornish

“Mma Ramotswe had a detective agency in Africa, at the foot of Kgale Hill. These were its assets: a tiny white van, two desks, two chairs, a telephone, and an old typewriter. Then there was a teapot, in which Mma Ramotswe – the only lady private detective in Botswana – brewed redbush tea. And three mugs – one for herself, one for her secretary, and one for the client. What else does a detective agency really need? Detective agencies rely on human intuition and intelligence, both of which Mma Ramotswe had in abundance. No inventory would ever include those, of course.”

Source: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

“To tell you the truth, I never wanted to become a moviemaker. It was like I was a cinepihile, and I go, like, three or four times per week to the cinema, and I like to watch films.”

Wanted Film Three Watches Four Week Cinema

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“You need to take small steps when you dream big dreams. I am a published author with dyslexia, a professional speaker who was in speech therapy for three years as a child because I had a lisp; and a slow stiff kid from the suburbs who became an All-Pro in the NFL.”

Needs Years Children Dream Bigs Kids Three Steps Speech Therapy Nfl Three Years Speakers Suburbs Small Steps Dyslexia Lisp Speech Therapy

Book:Heart of a Student Athlete: All-Pro Advice for Competitors and Their Families

Source: Heart of a Student Athlete: All-Pro Advice for Competitors and Their Families

“The problem with our churches today is that the lead pastor is some sissy boy who wears cardigan sweaters, has The Carpenters dialed in on his iPod, gets his hair cut at a salon instead of a barber shop, hasn’t been to an Ultimate Fighting match, works out on an elliptical machine instead of going to isolated regions of Russia like in Rocky IV in order to harvest lumber with his teeth, and generally swishes around like Jack from Three’s Company whenever Mr. Roper was around.”

“It took me three weeks to write the 'Rhapsody in Blue.' I had always wanted to write something blue and Paul Whiteman inspired.”

Writing Wanted Three Week Blue Inspired Gershwin

Author:George Gershwin

“It is despairing to consider that the cost and reliability of access to space have barely changed since the Apollo era over three decades ago. Yet in virtually every other field of technology, we have made great strides in reducing cost and increasing capability.”

Made Three Space Technology Fields Changed Cost Decades Access Eras Capability Apollo Reducing Stride Reliability

Author:Elon Musk

“But all good things come to an end, often a sad angry miserable end. The cause for such an end can usually be whittled down to one of three things: money, sickness, love lost.”

Ends Three Lost Causes Angry Good Things Miserable Sickness Lost Love Three Things

Author:James Frey

“It's just like high school. If you're a freshman or a sophomore, it's hard to tell the seniors who've been through two, three, playoff games what to do.”

Ifs Two Hard School Three Games High School Senior Playoffs Freshman Sophomore Playoff Games

Author:Tony Romo

“We will either defend the rights of people and the earth, and for that we have to dismantle the rights that corporations have assigned to themselves, or corporations will in the next three decades destroy this planet, in terms of human possibilities.”

People Humans Earth Three Next Term Rights Possibility Planets Decades Corporations

Author:Vandana Shiva

“AND THEN SOME... these three little words are the secret to success. People that follow this are thoughtful of others; considerate and kind...and then some. They are good friends and neighbors...and then some. I am thankful for people like this, for they make the world a better place. Their spirit of service is summed up in these three little words...AND THEN SOME.”

People World Kind Littles Spirit Three Secret Neighbor Thoughtful Good Friend Better Place Secret To Success Considerate I Am Thankful

Author:Carl Holmes

“Network marketing is the only industry that allows common people to earn millions with a minimal investment and zero overhead, coupled with total time freedom and the joy of global travel. There are three magic words that worked for all of us who have made it to the pinnacle and they'll work for you: 'Just don't quit.'”

Source: Your First Year in Network Marketing: Overcome Your Fears, Experience Success, and Achieve Your Dreams!

“I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.”

Years Three Force Half Air Months Ten Notion Eight Three Years Air Force

Author:Morgan Freeman

“Rarely do more than three or four variables really count. Everything else is noise.”

Three Four Investing Noise Variables

Author:Martin J. Whitman

“In recent years - before the intifada - there were three or four incidents of anti-Semitism a year, and that's out of 18 million crimes and violations of the law.”

Years Law Three Millions Four Crime Incidents Violation Anti Semitism

Author:Jean-Marie Le Pen

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