“I generally play villains once every three or four years by choice because I get offered villainous roles a lot, because of the way I look and whatever. And I tend to avoid them because I think you can end up in a cul-de-sac of your own making if you're cast in that.” IfsThinkingWayYearsLooksEndsPlayChoicesThreeRolesFourCastsVillainFour Years Author:Kevin McKidd
“Everyone is always surprised by how old I am. They think I'm older, but it's always been that way. I'm the youngest of four - maybe you grow up quicker because you just watch the big people.” PeopleThinkingWayBigsGrowsWatchesGrowing UpFour Author:Elizabeth Olsen
“Since I found that one could make a case shadow from a three-dimensional thing, any object whatsoever - just as the projecting of the sun on the earth makes two dimensions - I thought that by simple intellectual analogy, the fourth dimension could project an object of three dimensions, or, to put it another way, any three-dimensional object, which we see dispassionately, is a projection of something four-dimensional, something we are not familiar with.” WayTwoEarthThreeFoundSimpleCasesSunFourObjectsProjectsIntellectualShadowLogicFamiliarCertaintyUncertaintyReasoningDimensionsFourthAnother WayProjectionAnalogiesOntologyThree Dimensions Author:Marcel Duchamp
“After 'Sports' came out in the fall of 1983, everything changed for me. Four of the album's singles became top-10 hits, and by the end of June in 1984, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It was quite a ride, and for the first time I had enough money to live the way I wanted.” WayFirstsEndsEnoughWantedFallSportsFourChangedFirst TimeAlbumsJuneHad EnoughSinglesBillboardsTop 10 Author:Huey Lewis
“In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.” PeopleWayYearsCountryEnoughLastsLostFourHeardOur CountryFour YearsHad EnoughDrifting Author:Ted Yoho
“Readers have actually changed the way I've done things, changed the course of my career even, about four or five times. Just from reader feedback.” WayDoneCoursesCareersFiveFourChangedReaderThings ChangeFeedback Author:Debbie Macomber
“The four Ways reflect a pervasive belief that life will be simple if we practice four basic principles: Show up or choose to be present, Pay attention to what has heart and meaning, Tell the truth without blame or judgment, and Be open, rather than attached to, the outcome.” IfsWayHeartShowsBeliefSimplePayAttentionPrinciplesPracticeFourJudgmentBlamePay AttentionOutcomesTelling The TruthBasic Principles Author:Angeles Arrien
“I write four books a year. I'm very fortunate that I write quickly; around 3,500 words a day. Being strict about delineating my writing time and personal life, as well as keeping distractions at bay, is the only way I can accomplish this.” WayWritingYearsWellsI CanBookFourAccomplishFortunateDistractionStrictPersonal Life Author:Alexander McCall Smith
“I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts.” WaySaidWantedFilmFourTelevisionNeededFinanceReleaseFeaturesTheatricalJerusalem Author:Bille August
“The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts, donkey-carts, hand-carts, and bicycles which fearlessly find their way amidst the turmoil, with foot-passengers winding in and out, and covering the sidewalks with their multitude, give the effect of a single monstrous organism, which writhes swiftly along the channel where it had run in the figure of a flood till you were tired of that metaphor. You are now a molecule of that vast organism.” WayGivingHandsRunningScienceFourFeetEffectsFiguresHugeTiredMetaphorFloodMultitudesOrganismsTruckBicycleCoveringMonstrousPassengersTurmoilMoleculesSidewalkCartsCarriagesWagonsDonkeyPoniesSwellingImpetuousFour Wheelers Author:William Dean Howells