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Steve Martin Comedian, Actor, Writer
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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?"

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Sydney Smith Writer
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"Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment."

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"A live action movie is work, and an animated movie is you showing up in your pajamas once every three months, or in my case, just a splash of baby powder. It's not any kind of heavy lifting."

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Laozi Philosopher
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"These possessions of a simpleton being the three I choose and cherish: to care, to be fair, to be humble."

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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
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"If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress."

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Isabel Allende Novelist
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"The first two, three, four weeks are wasted. I just show up in front of the computer. Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. If she doesn't show up invited, eventually she just shows up."

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Katie Couric Journalist
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"All three networks have always had a morning show but now cable of course is taking some of that audience away and a variety of other things, probably the Internet as well."

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Gene Wilder Actor, comedian
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"I certainly didn't have New York Jewish humor. But I was in three Mel Brooks films so people thought I was a connoisseur of New York Jewish humor."

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George Carlin Comedian, Actor
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"At 68 I'm every age I ever was. I always think of that. I'm not just 68. I'm also 55 and 21 and three. Oh especially three."

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"Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live."

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Ken Ludwig Playwright, Screenwriter
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"Do you see what I mean?! About the theater?! I'm back here for three hours and I'm acting like a lunatic. I'll be in analysis till I'm a hundred"

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Leonard Cohen Singer-Songwriter
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"Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!"

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