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• There are six Time Warp Trio books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve more while I was typing this sentence.

  Jon Scieszka

  Book, Twelve, Pages

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• I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I write. Every book comes to me in a flash of inspiration and takes me about two seconds to finish. The longer books, like the Time Warp Trio novels, take a little longer to write - more like four seconds.

  Jon Scieszka

  Book, Inspiration, Writing

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• I started out by myself, but it eventually turned into a trio by the mid-'60s - a conga drum and another guitarist. And that's been mostly what I've worked with most of the time.

  Richie Havens

  Congas, Havens, Guitarist

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• Me personally, I side more with punk rock bands. I grew up with The Misfits, The Dead Boys, The Damned, Dropkick Murphys, and early AFI. That was the stuff that really got me into music. Song writing wise, bands like Alkaline Trio were very important to me for beginning to write songs.

  Andy Biersack

  Wise, Song, Writing

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• When I was seven years old, I was leading a quartet and trio, and that really laid the groundwork for me as a musician.

  Anne Akiko Meyers

  Years, Musician, Seven

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. October 16, 2014.

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• The Edith Head Trio, I would say, would be even less of a musical career than playing the accordion, particularly because I played the accordion in The Edith Head Trio. I'm very impressed by your Googling. The Edith Head Trio and another band, Tzamboni, were two bands I was in after college that played at tiny clubs to little acclaim. Our Gypsy tango version of "When Doves Cry" was our biggest hit.But we were not destined for greatness.

  Daniel Handler

  Greatness, College, Careers

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• How could I have not known about Ume? An Austin trio fronted by a whirling dervish of singer guitarist who in the standard PR band head shot looks like she wouldn't hurt a fly; yet give her a guitar, a Marshall stack and a mic and stand back, way back. She shreds. File under - Do Not Overlook and Go Tell Your Friends

  Dave Allen

  Hurt, Guitar, Giving

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• Clary: "He wanted me to come with him. To join him and Sebastain. I guess he wants their evil little duo to be a little evil trio." She shrugged. "Maybe he's lonely. Sebastian cant be the greatest company. Magnus: we don't know that. He could be absolutely fantastic at Scrabble.

  Cassandra Clare

  Lonely, Evil, Scrabble

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• When I was about 13 or 14. I was in a Kingston Trio type group. We evolved into the New Breed. Our first song on the radio was "Green Eyed Woman," not to be confused with "Green Eyed Lady".

  Timothy B. Schmit

  Song, Confused, Groups

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• Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.

  Russell Baker

  Literature, Novelists, Sparkle

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• Bush, Blair and Rumsfeld; they are the funny trio.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Blair

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• I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I am very much engaged back to playing and recording and everything.

  Miroslav Vitous

  Europe, Together, Sound

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• In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical precedent.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Two, Historical, Different

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• Adam Berenson knows how to compose, organize an ensemble, do musical research, play solo and trio piano, write for musical journals, and enlist others to his cause. A very fine musician.

  Paul Bley

  Writing, Play, Piano

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• I dream of starting a three-man country trio called the Chixie Dicks.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Funny, Dream, Country

  "Zach Galifianakis Live at the Purple Onion". Documentary, Comedy, 2006.

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• Messi alone is more dangerous than Real Madrid's attacking trio Ronaldo, Benzema and Bale.

  Diego Simeone

  Real, Messi, Madrid

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• I was raised with opera and very white-bread folk music like The Kingston Trio. That was about as daring as it got. So when I discovered hip-hop as a teenager, at first it made no sense to me at all.

  Jess Row

  Teenager, White, Hip Hop

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player

  Karen Black

  Player, Guitar, Jazz

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• Utilizing a unique acoustic blend never heard previously, the Aaron O’Rourke Trio has made a fine debut recording that is sure to please old and new grass fans alike.

  David Grisman

  Unique, Fans, Old And New

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• Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the last three centuries. In the United States, the subtle spell of opium has been broken by restrictive legislation; the grip of the rum demon has been loosened by the Prohibition Amendment to the Constitution, but the tobacco habit still maintains its strangle-hold and more than one hundred million victims of tobaccoism daily burn incense to the smoke god.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Science, Broken, Progress

  John Harvey Kellogg (1922). “Tobaccoism;: Or, How Tobacco Kills,”

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• The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant commercials to look at Flashgun Casey or swallow a flock of beer and loan-shark spiels in order to watch a couple of fourth-rate club fighters rub noses on the ropes is not losing any time from book reading.

  Raymond Chandler

  Couple, Book, Reading

  Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney, Frank MacShane (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.69, Grove Press

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• These are the saddest of possible words, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Trio of Bear Cubs fleeter than birds, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble, Making a Giant hit into a double, Words that are weighty with nothing but trouble, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. This brief poem, immortalized the Chicago Cubs' double-play combination: Shortstop Joe Tinker, second baseman Johnny Evers, and first baseman Frank Chance.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Play, Bird, Bears

  Franklin Pierce Adams, “Baseball's Sad Lexicon”

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• I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet.

  Al Jarreau

  Song, Years, Needs

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• Ive heard some people say that Im selling out, but Im not. If I hadnt done Black Radio, and just kept on doing just piano trio stuff, I wouldnt be honest with myself; Id be doing it to please other people. That would be selling out.

  Robert Glasper

  Piano, People, Black

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• I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Singers, Crystals, Affection

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