Three Quotes - Page 7

• Never trust a second thought. Where there is two there is three. You will end up thinking forever.

  Richard Fish

  Thinking, Two, Forever

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• There's a huge raft of roles that actors in our culture perform, and you can see any one of about three Hamlets in a year. It's not something to be completely daunted by.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Years, Culture, Roles

  "Benedict Cumberbatch Interview SHERLOCK; Also Talks About Steven Spielberg’s WAR HORSE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 3, 2010.

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• The three short years I spent at Harvard, where I lived with excellent people, taught me not only that I must know how to choose my partners but also that choosing excellent partners is a skill you can learn. Obviously, when you spend time with the best, you learn how to choose among them.

  Jorge Paulo Lemann

  Years, Skills, People

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• Before I decided to concentrate on writing, I drew pictures and painted, and made Super 8 experimental movies. I was the singer in three rock bands, and I wrote and staged and acted in plays for kids in my neighborhood. So I was kind of all over the place in my interests and far-flung in terms of where my creativity wanted to end up.

  Dennis Cooper

  Kids, Writing, Creativity

  "Go Forth (Vol. 19)". Interview with Brandon Hobson and Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. December 11, 2013.

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• Actually solving the puzzles in the book isn't going to improve anyone's writing, but "trying to solve the puzzle" is one way to think about what a lot of us - writers and other artists - do every day. Step one is to recognize the problem, step two is deciding what constraints you want to impose or respect, and step three is finding a pleasing/surprising/exciting solution.

  Peter Turchi

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "Something to be shared". Interview with Reed Turchi, logger.believermag.com. November 11, 2014.

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• I remember I prayed to God. I was like, "Just let me be on TV." Let my friends see me on TV in a good thing. I like, if I'm funny a little bit on a commercial and then I don't need to act ever again. "Just let them see me." And then it worked. I got the commercial. I was on TV. My friends all saw me. I was a kind of a star at school for like three days. And then it faded away and I was hungry and I had to like make another deal with God. I remember it still.

  Jack Black

  Stars, School, Littles

  "Jack Black's dramatic turn". Interview with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2005.

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• I can't even get a credit card without three credit bureaus saying I'm good enough.

  Barack Obama

  Cards, Credit, Good Enough

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I started very early. I started to be interested in design when I was 14 years old, basically, and before I was just like anybody else, any other kid. I was playing with everything. I loved to do stage sets by cutting a piece of board and making a cut in three sides, flipping it down, making the stage.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Kids, Cutting, Years

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on the TV screen and it becomes a place. And it exists for three weeks and then it disappears into thin air.

  Isabel Allende

  Air, World, Tvs

  Interview with Laura Flanders, www.counterpunch.org. June 06, 2003.

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• I was in George Martin's studio in Amsterdam and he was telling me, 'They come in here and it takes them three days to do a bass line.' Well I'm not from that era.

  Ringo Starr

  Lines, Bass, Amsterdam

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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• I'm told I was acting in school plays when I was a tiny little boy at the age of three, so they must have seen something then. And even when I was practicing piano eight hours a day, I was still doing school plays.

  Christian McKay

  School, Boys, Eight

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• I don't want to make promises, not knowing what the situation's going to be three or four years out.

  Barack Obama

  Knowing, Years, Promise

  Democratic debate, Hanover, New Hampshire, www.nbcnews.com. September 26, 2007.

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• Democrats in Washington predicted that tax cuts would not create jobs, would not increase wages, and would cause the federal deficit to explode. Well, the facts are in. The tax cuts have led to a strong economy. Real wages were on the rise, and deficit has been cut in half three years ahead of schedule.

  George W. Bush

  Strong, Jobs, Real

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. November 1, 2006.

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• I was just starting out, trying to become a screenwriter, and I became the Austin slam champion three times. For a nerdy, kind of a socially awkward guy, that did wonders for my self esteem.

  Ernest Cline

  Self Esteem, Guy, Champion

  "Author Ernie Cline Was Told Video Games Would Rot His Brain, But Who Holds the High Score Now?". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. July 10, 2015.

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• As far as my house, I have a ton of video games and three or four old consoles.

  Ernest Cline

  Games, House, Video

  "Author Ernie Cline Was Told Video Games Would Rot His Brain, But Who Holds the High Score Now?". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. July 10, 2015.

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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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• It's seldom that you get to work with one director more than once. I've worked with Clint Eastwood three times, but that's the only one that's happened with, simply because I adore his work.

  Morgan Freeman

  Directors, Adore, Happened

  "Morgan Freeman talks about '5 Flights Up' - and more". Interview with Bill Goodykoontz, www.azcentral.com. May 6, 2015.

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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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• A great trick that I learned having worked as a screenwriter for many years, the way screenwriters work, is they break the project down into three-act structure: Act 1, Act 2, Act 3. I think that is a great way to break down any project, whether it's a new business or anything at all.

  Steven Pressfield

  Thinking, Years, Way

  "Special Interview with Steven Pressfield and Ishita Gupta". "Marketing Over Coffee" podcast with John Wall, www.marketingovercoffee.com. May 16, 2011.

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• One thing I've found in any project is almost universally about three quarters of the way through - or maybe a little father, maybe seventh eighths on the way through - any project will explode.

  Steven Pressfield

  Father, Littles, Way

  "Special Interview with Steven Pressfield and Ishita Gupta". "Marketing Over Coffee" podcast with John Wall, www.marketingovercoffee.com. May 16, 2011.

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• The problem I've always discovered in my own work when this kind of thing happens when you hit the wall is there's almost always a reason. You've almost always made a mistake in the initial conception of the project. You misapprehended something or you thought something would work and now you're three quarters on the way through and you see that it doesn't work.

  Steven Pressfield

  Wall, Mistake, Way

  "Special Interview with Steven Pressfield and Ishita Gupta". "Marketing Over Coffee" podcast with John Wall, www.marketingovercoffee.com. May 16, 2011.

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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 look forward to a time when lawyers aren't in the top three calls every day, and all you care about is how your kids are doing in school or what the weather's like and the great day you had with your family.

  Lance Armstrong

  School, Kids, Weather

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

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