Three Years Quotes

• Over the past three years, we'd become each other's habit. And though he'd broken his habit of me when he walked away, I'd not broken my habit of him.

  Tammara Webber

  Past, Years, Broken

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• I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the US. It took three years to get the accent right.

  Idris Elba

  Years, Three, Accents

  "The Midas touch". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2009.

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• You see, in America, it's quite standard for an actor to sign, at the beginning of a series, for five or seven years. The maximum any British agent will allow you to have over an actor is three years.

  Julian Fellowes

  Years, America, Three

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• I've not been a prolific poet, and it always seemed to me to be a bad idea to feel that you had to produce in order to get... credits. Production of a collection of poems every three years or every five years, or whatever, looks good, on paper. But it might not be good; it might be writing on a kind of automatic pilot.

  James Fenton

  Writing, Order, Years

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• I speak as much Spanish as anyone who has grown up in Southern California or Texas or Arizona. I had my three years of high-school Spanish and a couple of semesters in college.

  Will Ferrell

  Couple, School, College

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• When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.

  James Franco

  School, Years, Two

  "James Franco Talks ‘The Broken Tower’ and Addresses His Critics". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. April 23, 2012.

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• Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.

  Al Franken

  Feet, Years, Guy

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, progressive.org. July 2, 2009.

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• 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.

  Morgan Freeman

  Eight, Air, Years

  "New Again: Morgan Freeman". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

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• When I left college, I was out of work for three years. I had this dream of being on 'SNL,' and that was all I could imagine.

  Josh Gad

  Dream, College, Years

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• It's not good just to have life experience of film-making and that's all. It's hard to play a real person when you've been in jets and town cars for three years.

  Ryan Gosling

  Real, Play, Years

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• I'm lucky because my dad taught me to be frugal and save. And that's important because I want to know that I don't have to take an acting job for two or three years if I don't want to and that I'll still be able to make my house and car payments and buy food for my dogs.

  Ashley Greene

  Dog, Jobs, Dad

  "Ashley Greene's 'Twilight' Fame: Actress Reveals Her Friends Think She's 'Changed'". Marie Claire Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2012.

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• I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  School, College, Years

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• The first thing I did was give up sweet tea because I drank so much. I'd start drinking at lunchtime and wouldn't set it down until I went to bed. When you calculate how much empty calories and how much sugar I was consuming, it was staggering. So I haven't had a glass of sweet tea in three years.

  Paula Deen

  Sweet, Giving Up, Drinking

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• I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately educated yet, but maybe one day.

  Claire Danes

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.

  Travis Barker

  School, Years, Three

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• I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol. The other people in the competition had been taking singing lessons and had vocal coaches. I wasn't taking it too seriously at the time, I would just sing around the house. I was only 12 and I got second place.

  Justin Bieber

  Years, Idols, People

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• I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.

  Orlando Bloom

  Years, Three, Roles

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• The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.

  Eli Broad

  Summer, Dream, School

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• I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was.

  Tim Burton

  Father, Years, Would Be

  Interview with Danny Elfman, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 11, 2010.

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• I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General.

  Smedley Butler

  Country, Military, Marine

  "War Is a Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

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• You know what Disneyland is known for? The Big Turkey Leg. People walk around with enormous deep-fried turkey legs. Like little kids, three-year-old kids eating these five-pound turkey legs.

  Steve Carell

  Kids, Years, Turkeys

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• When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn’t imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I’m gone for six days it feels like too much.

  Adam Carolla

  Christmas, Dad, Kids

  "‘How Dare You!’: Q&A with Adam Carolla". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2010.

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• Well, let me tell you, after three years of Obama, we are hopeless and changeless, and we need Mitt Romney to bring us back, to bring America back.

  Chris Christie

  Years, America, Three

  "In Iowa, Candidates Make Closing Arguments". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. December 30, 2011.

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• I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature. People find it odd that I went to both Harvard and Yale, and I guess it is odd, but that's just what people did where I grew up.

  Lev Grossman

  School, College, Years

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