“During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.” Has BeensMadeBookHappensLastsNightThreeMy OwnCitiesWeekHotel Author:Laini Taylor
“When I was working at Teleflora, I got booked to do 'Talladega Nights,' so I went and did that. That was really my first big break ev-er. I made as much from my per diem during the three-month shoot as I did for the entire previous year.” YearsFirstsMadeBigsNightThreeBreakMonthsThree MonthsPrevious Years Author:Jack McBrayer
“I've taken off two months, three months at a time, and, by the end, I get really squirrelly. My night life, my dream life, gets extremely populated and crazed.” TwoEndsDreamNightThreeTakenMonthsGet RealThree MonthsTwo MonthsIndolence Author:Stephen King
“I am a traveler. I am a nomad. I rarely sleep in the same bed more than three or four nights. And I know hotel life better than anyone.” KnowsNightThreeSleepFourBedHotelTravelerNomad Author:Diane von Furstenberg
“You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights.” FactsFacesNightThreeOpportunityNew YorkSummerReputationPerformersComposerSongwritersCentreInvitedFestivals Author:Elvis Costello
“Every night I vow to work out in the morning. For the past three years, however, I have always found an excuse not to.” YearsPastNightThreeFoundMorningWork OutExcuseThree YearsEvery NightVow Author:Matthew Vaughn
“If you have a radio, the next three months is a good time to have it quit working. All you will hear from now until the 4th of November will be: 'We must get our government out of the hands of predatory wealth.' 'The good people of this great country are burdened to death with taxes. Now what I intend to do is ...' What he intends to do is try and get elected. That's all any of them intend to do. Another one that will hum over the old static every night will be: 'This country has reached a crisis in its national existence.'” PeopleIfsTryingCountryHandsGovernmentNightThreeNextPoliticsWealthExistenceMonthsTaxesCrisisRadioQuittingGood TimesGood PeopleEvery NightNovemberStaticThree MonthsGreat CountryPredatory Author:Will Rogers
“When I went through a really intense break-up - you know, I was engaged - the thing that gave me the most anxiety was not knowing what to do with myself when Disney wasn't there to carry me anymore or if I didn't have him. And now I'm FREE of both of those things and I'm fine. I lay in bed at night by myself and I'm totally OK and that's so much stronger than the person three years ago, who would have thought they would have died if they didn't have a boyfriend.” IfsKnowsYearsPersonsNightThreeBreakKnowingFineBedAnxietyYears AgoDiedStrongerLaysIntenseEngagedThree YearsNot KnowingKnowing What To Do Author:Miley Cyrus
“The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins and Garbage. I was fourteen or fifteen. I liked Shirley Manson because she reminded me of Annie Lennox. They both have these deep, sexy, powerful alto voices.” FirstsRealNightThreeVoicePowerfulDogDadMy DadSexyConcertsFifteenGarbageFourteenPumpkinAnnieSmashingMansonThree DogSmashing Pumpkins Author:Amy Lee
“An actor can do a play on Broadway for three years. Every night he's expressing the same emotion in exactly the same way. He has developed a technique to convey those feelings so that he can get the ideas across. Or a musician may not want to play that damn music at all, but he has a booking and has to do it.” WayWantYearsMayIdeasPlayFeelingsNightThreeActorsCan DoEmotionMusicianTechniqueDamnThree YearsEvery NightBroadway Author:Richard Estes
“From the walls of Baidi high in the coloured dawn To Jiangling by night-fall is three hundred miles, Yet monkeys are still calling on both banks behind me To my boat these ten thousand mountains away.” StillsNightFallThreeBehindsWallCallingThousandTenMountainHundredMilesBoatDawnMonkeys Author:Li Bai
“The great thing about having been poor is how liberated it makes you if you eventually become rich. There's nothing like the knowledge that you don't need money to survive. That the money cushion you lie on every night doesn't have to be three feet thick, and you can still get to sleep.” IfsNeedsStillsLyingNightThreeWealthSleepPoorRichFeetGreat ThingsThickEvery NightLiberatedCushionsBecome RichNeed Money Author:Bill Maher
“I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.” TryingFormNightThreeVisionSawsHungrySatPieDay And NightBeefRimsRio Book:The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader Source: The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader
“I guess I'm what you call a slush-piler. I just sent my manuscripts to the slush pile of publishers and hoped for the best. Over seven years, I was rejected seven times on three different books. The fourth attempt was picked up by a small publisher, and I still have great memories of staying up all night, talking to my brother and sisters (my dad called me at 2:30 in the morning because I was overseas).” YearsStillsBookDifferentNightThreeMemoriesTalkingMorningBrotherDadSevenMy DadMy BrotherStayingFourthRejectedPublishersBrothers And SistersSeven YearsAll NightManuscriptsUp All NightGreat MemoriesDifferent BooksSlush Author:Markus Zusak
“I’ve come in and out of America for… well, I’ve lived here for 15 years. And I’ve played here for nearly 30 years. On and off. But I’ve always played to my fan base. And I can come and do two or three nights in New York or two or three nights in L.A., and all that. But when I go away, nobody knows I’ve been gone. You know, I don’t get reviewed or anything like that. So that’s why I’ve come back and done a longer time in a smaller place, in New York. It’s always the people who live here that get a chance to know me.” PeopleKnowsYearsWellsI CanTwoDoneAmericaNightThreeChanceGoneComedyFansNew YorkGoing AwayKnow MeNobody KnowsAnd Off Author:Billy Connolly
“What Music expresses is eternal, infinite, and ideal; she expresses not the passion, love, desire, of this or that individual in this or that condition, but Passion, Love, Desire itself, and in such infinitely varied phases as lie in her unique possession and are foreign and unknown to any other tongue...So...Here's to Victory, gained by our higher sense over the worthlessness of the vulgar! To Love, which crowns our courage...To the day, to the night!...And three cheers for Music.” LyingDesireNightPassionThreeIndividualMusicConditionsVictoryHigherEternalUniqueIdealsInfinitePossessionTongueCheerCrownsPhasesVulgarLove PassionWorthlessness Book:Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays Source: Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays
“I know lots of people that take cocaine three nights a week and get up and go to work every day, no problem. But we never hear that side of the story.” PeopleKnowsStoriesProblemNightThreeSidesWeekGet UpNo ProblemCocaine Author:Lily Allen
“Christmas was always a big holiday in our family. Every Christmas Eve before wed go to bed, my mom and dad would read to us two or three stories and they would always be The Happy Prince, The Gift of the Magi and Twas the Night Before Christmas, and I would like to keep that alive.” TwoStoriesBigsNightThreeAliveMomDadBedMy MomOur FamilyHolidayMom And DadChristmas Eve Author:Cameron Mathison
“Show business can be an addiction. ... An audience would laugh at me one night, and I would chase that high for another three months.” ShowsNightThreeAudienceLaughingMonthsHollywoodAddictionShow BusinessOne NightThree Months Author:Joan Rivers
“As for me, I always train for 12 rounds just in case. I don’t train for three, four, one, or 10 rounds - I have to train for 12 because you never know what will happen that night.” KnowsHappensNightThreeCasesFourTrainRounds Author:Manny Pacquiao
“I woke up last night and thought: 'I must call somebody in my next novel Casablanca.' It's such a great name. I don't want to call anybody Fred or Jane or Susan, so when three people get into bed together, you don't know who they are.” PeopleKnowsWantTogetherLastsNightThreeNextNamesNovelBedLast NightJane Author:Jackie Collins
“That party last night was awfully crazy I wish we taped it I danced my ass off and had this one girl completely naked Drink my beer and smoke my weed But my good friends is all I need Pass out at three wake up at ten Go out to eat then do it again Man I love college.” MenNeedsLastsNightGirlThreeWishPartyCrazyCollegeDrinkWake UpNakedAssSmokeBeerWeedGood FriendLast Night Author:Asher Roth
“I would say the three stages of making a film are the initial 'are we gonna do this,' 'how much will I be paid,' is there a lot of nights, who's it going to be with? The second stage of doing a film is how much fun your going to have doing it. The third stage is was the film a hit?” FilmNightThreeFunStageThirdsPaidInitials Author:Steve Martin
“I used to follow celebrities, and I remember I watched Sanjay Dutt and Pooja Bhatt shooting for 'Sadak'. I was standing on the road at three in the night, but little did I know that I would be making a film with Sanjay at some point in my career.” KnowsLittlesWould BeRememberFilmUsedNightThreeCareersStandingShooting Author:Boman Irani
“Every actor has three versions of each scene - the one that you rehearse the night before, in your bedroom, the one you actually get to do when you're filming, and then the one you wish you would have done, afterward.” DoneNightThreeActorsWishSceneVersionsBedroomWish You Author:Zac Efron
“I make myself lie down every afternoon; otherwise I'll be too exhausted by the night-time. If I can't nap, I'll watch a little bit of TV and just relax for two or three hours.” IfsLittlesI CanTwoLyingNightThreeBitsHoursWatchesTvsLittle BitRelaxAfternoonExhaustedNapsNight Time Author:China Machado
“Never invite to dinner: those who won't decide until the last minute; those who come more than half an hour late; those who want to bring along two or three friends; drunks; monologists; those who stay until three o'clock in the morning; those who think that conversation means having an argument; those who take a high moral tone; those who are stupid, ugly, or dull. Enforcement of these rules will enable one to eat alone every night in comfort.” ThinkingWantMeanTwoLastsNightThreeHoursHalfMoralMorningMinutesStupidComfortConversationLateArgumentUglyDinnerClockToneDullInvitesEvery NightCompanionshipEnforcementLast MinuteThree Friends Author:Mason Cooley