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• 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?

  Steve Martin

  Fun, Night, Film

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I was born with a crippled leg. I wore a corrective shoes since I was three years old and I still wear them.

  Richard Simmons

  Years, Shoes, Legs

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• What's interesting about textiles is that they are determined about three seasons in advance, that's why when you walk into a store you think "Gee, everything looks about the same."

  Tim Gunn

  Thinking, Interesting, Looks

  Source: www.fanbolt.com

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• I can lose three million dollars because it's just paper. Thus, my lifestyle is not dependent up the stock market.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Dollars, Paper, Lifestyle

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• I know what happened to my foundation, from raising no money to raising $500m, serving three million people. Do we want to take that away? I don't think anybody says yes.

  Lance Armstrong

  Thinking, People, Want

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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• I raced because I was paid to do a job and I felt like I had to do the job. Number two: I raced because I loved the process, I loved training, getting ready for the race, I loved all of that. And number three I raced for my memories. Regardless of what somebody wants to give or take away, you can't take my memories.

  Lance Armstrong

  Jobs, Memories, Race

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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• I got the three things I wanted. I did my job, I worked hard in the process, and I cherish the memories, and they're mine.

  Lance Armstrong

  Jobs, Memories, Cherish

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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• There's only, I think, in life, three things that I do pretty well: Performing, I still can field ground balls, and I make nice kids.

  Billy Crystal

  Nice, Kids, Thinking

  "Billy Crystal And John Goodman: How We Got Here". Interview with Adam B. Vary, www.buzzfeed.com. June 14, 2013.

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• The three most important things in retail are location, location, location. The three most important things for our consumer business are technology, technology, technology.

  Jeff Bezos

  Technology, Important, Retail

  "Speaking Out: Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos". The BusinessWeek Interview, www.bloomberg.com. August 25, 2003.

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• There are only three things to say about cocaine. One, there is no such thing as enough. Two, it will never be as good as the first time. Three, those first two facts constitute a tragedy of expense in ways that can't be experienced unless you've had cocaine. ... Your brain will settle into a puddle around your sinuses and you will die.

  Eve Babitz

  Two, Brain, Tragedy

  Eve Babitz (2015). “Eve's Hollywood”, p.96, New York Review of Books

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• This is my main shortcoming: I was so determined not to lose time that I often did the wrong thing. Not losing time has been my permanent concern since I was three years old, when it dawned on me that time is the warp of life, its very fabric, something that you cannot buy, trade, steal, falsify, or obtain by begging.

  Nina Berberova

  Time, Years, Fabric

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• I know I shall not live very long. But why is that so sad? Is a festival more beautiful because it lasts longer? My sensuous perceptions grow sharper, as if I were supposed to take in everything with the few years that will be offered to me ... And now love will still blossom for me before I depart, and if I've painted three good pictures, then I shall leave gladly with flowers in my hand and my hair.

  Paula Modersohn-Becker

  Beautiful, Flower, Hair

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• The rain was dashing in torrents against the window-panes, and the wind sweeping in heavy and fitful gusts along the dreary and deserted streets, as a party of three persons sat over their wine, in that stately old pile which once formed the resort of the Irish Members, in College Green, Dublin, and went by the name of Daly's Clubhouse.

  Charles Lever

  Party, Rain, Book

  Charles Lever (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Lever (Illustrated)”, p.767, Delphi Classics

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• When the red wrath perisheth, when the dulled swords fail, These three who have walked with Death these shall prevail. Hell bade all its millions rise; Paradise sends three: Pity, and Self-sacrifice, and Charity.

  Theodosia Garrison

  War, Sacrifice, Wrath

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• the three most common myths of modern romance: 1. Single men would prefer being married. 2. Married men actually leave their wives. 3. Men who wear gold chains give gold rings.

  Linda Sunshine

  Men, Giving, Wife

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• Toddlers ask many questions, and so do school children - until about grade three. By that time, many of them have learned an unfortunate fact, that in school, it can be more important for self-protection to hide one's ignorance about a subject than to learn more about it, regardless of one's curiosity.

  Jan Hunt

  Children, School, Ignorance

  Jan Hunt (2013). “The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart”, p.115, New Society Publishers

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• Even the humblest men have a strange reason behind greed. Every man thinks money solves problems - and every man thinks not just of himself, but his next three generations - there is a probability he will live to see those generations - and he wants to care for them in times of strife.

  Siddharth Katragadda

  Men, Thinking, Greed

  "Dark Rooms: A Saga". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2002.

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• From the Zen view all beings are in the grip of the three poisons, greed, anger and delusion (ignorance).

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Anger, Ignorance, Views

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• What frustrated me was the thought that with three thousand years of history someone in China, some monk in a monastery halfway up a mountain, must have developed a magic kata, a physical expression of formae. Or at least have got close enough to explain all those legendary swordsmen and their inexplicable desire to roost on the tops of bamboo trees.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Expression, Years, Tree

  Ben Aaronovitch (2013). “Broken Homes”, p.167, Hachette UK

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• In 1850, August Salzmann photographed, near Jerusalem, the road to Beith-Lehem (as it was spelled at the time): nothing but stony ground, olive trees; but three tenses dizzy my consciousness: my present, the time of Jesus, and that of the photographer, all this under the instance of 'reality' - and no longer through the elaborations of the text, whether fictional or poetic, which itself is never credible down to the root.

  Roland Barthes

  Jesus, Reality, August

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• The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Years, Cost, Fifth Grade

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• I have always declared God to be a distinct personage, Jesus Christ a separate and distinct personage from God the Father, and the Holy Ghost was a distinct personage and a Spirit: and these three constitute three distinct personages and three Gods.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Jesus, Father, Spirit

  Joseph Smith Jr. (2010). “Lectures on Faith”, p.88, Cedar Fort

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• I think we all live dichotomies. I'm a father of three boys and a loyal homebody sort of husband and father. And yet I act in movies and write and direct movies.

  Tim Blake Nelson

  Husband, Father, Writing

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 31, 2010.

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• I feel like I've lived about three or four different lives.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Four, Different, Feels

  "Jennifer Hudson calls murders of her family 'surreal'" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. June 29, 2010.

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• You can't really achieve anything in three years.

  Cate Blanchett

  Years, Three Years, Achieve

  "The power and the glory". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2007.

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