Three Quotes - Page 20

• One of the traps or the pitfalls of writing a trilogy - or a triptych, or whatever term you want to use - is that the second book can be a long second act to get you from book one to book three, which borrows all of its energy from the first book.

  Justin Cronin

  Book, Writing, Long

  "Justin Cronin, author of The Passage, on book two of his vampire trilogy". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2012.

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• The three most important pitches I threw in my life were all fastballs.

  Bruce Sutter

  Important, Fastballs

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• When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer.

  Michael Mina

  Doctors, Parent, Choices

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• These are Gerald Celente's three Gs: gold, guns and a getaway plan.

  Gerald Celente

  Gun, Gold, Getaways

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• If a song is longer than three and a half minutes, itll need something to keep you entertained.

  Jake Bugg

  Song, Needs, Half

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• When a sketch comes into this three-dimensional form and everybody contributes, it's really fantastic.

  Francisco Costa

  Fantastic, Form

  "Bridget Foley’s Diary: Ten Years of Costa’s Calvin". Interview with Bridget Foley, wwd.com. September 12, 2013.

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• I believe theres a secret chemical thats turned loose when you have kids that says youve got to survive, youve got to be strong. That keeps you on your toes, besides all kinds of other things, when you have three little ones running around.

  Clyde Edgerton

  Running, Strong, Believe

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• The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

  Carl Bernstein

  Government, Broken, Branches

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• Sports teaches you there is always a second innings in life. If you fail today, theres a second innings maybe two days later. Maybe theres another opportunity coming up three or six months later. If you look at mistake as learnings and commit never to make a same mistake again, then you actually get better with every mistake that you make.

  Harsha Bhogle

  Sports, Mistake, Opportunity

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• Three to four times a week, I get up at 7:30 A.M. while the courts are empty at Venice Beach and play full court one-on-one.

  Missy Peregrym

  Beach, Play, Venice

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• Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

  Jamie Redknapp

  Lungs

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• Republicans have been very successful. There are three things Americans dont like: big unions, big government and big corporations. So Republicans go after big government and big unions, and only talk about small businesses.

  Andy Stern

  Successful, Government, Corporations

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• I'm a big fan of the Adidas three-stripe old-school zip-up tracksuit tops. I've got several for everyday wear, including an olive-green one, a burgundy one and a cream one with leather arms.

  Jonas Armstrong

  School, Stripes, Everyday

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I don't go to the gym and work out, I look like a bag of bones. I go three times a week usually and it's nearly all weights work to help with definition.

  Jonas Armstrong

  Work Out, Bags, Looks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Royal Canadian Air Farce, and I was in three sketches there. And they wrote some really great stuff for me.

  Trish Stratus

  Air, Farce, Stuff

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• Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Men, Two

  Jefferson and/or Mussolini ch. 23 (1935)

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• Abraham is such a fascinating figure. Three world religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - all claim him as a patriarch. He was raised in a religious home. And yet he rejected religion in order to pursue a personal relationship with God.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Religious, Home, Order

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• My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Powerful, Husband, Powerful Women

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• At noon I get to the gym to do my boxing workout. Three hours there. Rest. Once in a while I get a massage, because I need it once in while.

  Juan Manuel Marquez

  Workout, Boxing, Needs

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• I have been working on two problems for three years: one of them for 8 or 9 years, and one of them for 3, 4, 5 years.

  Whitfield Diffie

  Years, Two, Problem

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• I think Hanson is gonna be around for a long time. I think that they're three great, talented young men.

  Puff Daddy

  Men, Thinking, Long

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• I wasn't the brightest kid in school. I was a backbencher troubling the frontbencher, and eventually I failed in my 10th grade. But then in higher secondary, there were only three people who got first division in arts, and I was one of them. So this tells you, where you put your mind and heart into, that's where you go.

  Shiv Khera

  Art, School, Kids

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• Designing for me is a very complex process. There are many ideas that I want to express in one object, very often contradictory. The creative process in Miu Miu is completely different from that of Prada. Miu Miu is not as complicated and thought out as Prada. Rather than being young, Miu Miu is immediate Prada is very sophisticated and considered; Miu Miu is much more naive. The solution, when I am working on Miu Miu, has to come immediately, instinctively, spontaneously with whatever is available at the moment. If I think three times, I stop.

  Miuccia Prada

  Thinking, Ideas, Design

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• Rested, Refreshed, and Ready to run, the three Rs of peak performance.

  Hal Higdon

  Running, Peak Performance, Ready

  Hal Higdon (2011). “Marathon: The Ultimate Training Guide: Advice, Plans, and Programs for Half and Full Marathons”, p.157, Rodale

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• One of the stock Sydney jokes is of the census-taker who enquires: 'How many children have you, ma'am?' 'Two living and three in Melbourne.'

  Elspeth Huxley

  Children, Two, Melbourne

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