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"There's this absurd situation on a movie set where your trailer's here and the set is here and the lunch tent is here, and you're not allowed to get yourself from these three places."
"It seems like a lot when you have three movies back to back but that's not really how it is."
"In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter."
"An urgent missive sent to Josephine Home in three days. Don't wash."
"The dry knowledge of the three R's is not even now, it can never be, a permanent part of the villagers' life."
"Khadi service, village service and Harijan service are one in reality, though three in name."
"There are three layers to the universe. In the lower, Tai Ching, and the middle, Shan Ching, the hindrance of a physical bodily existence is required. Those who fail to live consistently in accord with the Tao reside here. In the upper, Yu Ching, there is only Tao: the bondage of form is broken, and the only thing existing is the exquisite energy dance of the immortal divine beings."
"When the emperor is crowned or the three dukes are appointed, rather than sending a gift of jade carried by four horses, remain still and offer the Way."
"The Eternal generates the One. The One generates the Two. The Two generates the Three. The Three generates all things."
""Back in the day when I started - it's like I walked five miles to school in the snow barefooted" - there were three channels.I don't know what I would do."
"I could eat a feeling faster than anybody, put a little hot sauce on it and wouldn't recognize it until it showed up on my behind three days later."
"Let's cool it brothers . . . Spoken to his assassins, three men who stabbed him 16 times."
"I have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it."
"They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours."
"I can write three novels in the time it takes to write one novella. I'm probably not going to go with that form again."
"Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres. Gaul as a whole is divided into three parts."
"When you're a writer, you have to have the passion and the skill and the craft. It's not just enough to have the passion. You've gotta have all three."
"I could not possibly be in a relationship now for more than six days. When I was younger, I might have said six months, although I think the longest relationship I was ever in was three years."
"I've lived three lifetimes in my short time."
"With pornography, if you don't get hard or wet, depending on your gender, it didn't work. With humour, if you don't laugh it didn't work. And with horror, if you don't get scared or haunted, depending on what it's trying to do, it didn't work. I'm fascinated by those three categories."
