Three Years Quotes - Page 17

• For three years between 16 and 19 I was the opening-act-for-the-opening-act-for-the-opening-act, you know? And then I was on tour with Ice-T, Stetsasonic, EPMD, Sir Mix-a-Lot--legends--and went on to sell 160 million records. It still baffles me.

  Vanilla Ice

  Years, Ice, Three

  "The GQ+A: Vanilla Ice". Interview with Nate Erickson, www.gq.com. April 5, 2013.

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• Playing a prisoner of war trapped in Pakistan for three years was a novelty for me. We made sure that we didn't talk about India versus Pakistan but about the emotions of people on both sides and how terrorism affects us all.

  Akshay Kumar

  War, Years, People

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• The fact that maybe I had some success playing G'Kar doesn't guarantee me three years later that I can still do it, so I have to keep my senses alive and still be working on it.

  Andreas Katsulas

  Years, Three, Guarantees

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• I wasn't a wrestling fan growing up; I knew who Hulk Hogan was and stuff but I didn't watch it. I started watching wrestling about three years before I got involved with WCW.

  Stacy Keibler

  Growing Up, Wrestling, Years

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• That I learned even as a three year-old that I see this world that is really a mess and I learned to say, this is not me. I am not the one that is messed up. It is out there.

  Story Musgrave

  Years, Three, World

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.

  Wendell Pierce

  Years, San Francisco, Three

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• I've been a pretty selfish mom and a very unselfish athlete for about three years now and it's time to put my family first. It's probably time to move on.

  Melanie Roach

  Mom, Selfish, Moving

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• I don't know where I'm going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities, to stop being an actress, to do something else... for me, the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries.

  Audrey Tautou

  Discovery, Years, Feelings

  Interview, www.aboutfilm.com.

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• For three years, the 'Meistersinger' score was a ball and chain to me. It went with me to every city and concert hall.

  Bryn Terfel

  Years, Cities, Three

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• I'm starting to think about my life, thinking about where I'm going to be in three years time: who I'm going to be with, where I'm going to be situated myself.

  Tinie Tempah

  Thinking, Years, Three

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• But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  School, Years, Two

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• 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.

  Frankie Muniz

  Years, Two, People

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• 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.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Writing, Grandmother, Florida

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• 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.

  Tim Cahill

  Dream, Book, Curves

  "Wild Life: An Interview With Tim Cahill". Interview with Erik Kancler, www.motherjones.com. March 25, 2005.

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• 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.

  Alexei Sayle

  Years, Comedian, Dying

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• 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.

  Karl Mecklenburg

  Dream, Children, Kids

  Karl Mecklenburg (2009). “Heart of a Student Athlete: All-Pro Advice for Competitors and Their Families”, p.40, Greenleaf Book Group

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• I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

  Dana Fox

  Cutting, Years, Stuff

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• 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.

  Grant Heslov

  Years, Long, Three

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• When you're criticized for something, it's best to wait two or three years and see.

  Gae Aulenti

  Years, Two, Waiting

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• Super Junior is not a group who will extinct in two or three years. We will always be with E.L.F. for 20 or 30 years until E.L.F. doesn't need us again.

  Leeteuk

  Years, Two, Groups

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• Last time I spoke to my mom she called me from a pay phone, and we didn't have the best talk. Ever since my stepdad passed away three years ago, she has been very depressed and hasn't been herself at all.

  Eric West

  Mom, Phones, Years

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• I see myself as most people see themselves, you have good days and bad days. I don't think I'm better looking now than I did three years ago.

  Bill Skarsgard

  Good Day, Bad Day, Thinking

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• Tucker was my safe place for three years, my secure dock in a sea of indecision as I dealt with my father's illness and death. And now I had to sink or swim. It was time to let go...and move on. Slowly, I pushed off from the dock that was Tucker Montgomery and prepared to swim...praying I wouldn't drown.

  Melissa Brown

  Letting Go, Father, Moving

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• I'd had a French education for three years, my father being in the army. From 9 to 12, I went to French school. I've been sort of part of the culture, part of the geography, since I was quite young - the imprint was there. And I loved it.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Father, School, Army

  Interview with Zoë Wolff, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 31, 2014.

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• I was in The Wire for three years, and I left at the highlight of that.

  Idris Elba

  Years, Wire, Three

  "Idris Elba and Ruth Wilson Interview LUTHER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 2, 2010.

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