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"I know that I shall have lost to the jungle if I take a weak moral standpoint or relax my mental punctiliousness. I have therefore come to a certain belief which is based on three powerful effective commandments: THOU SHALT BE ENTERTAINING AT ALL TIMES. THOU SHALT OBEY THY ARTISTIC CONSCIENCE AT ALL TIMES. THOU SHALT MAKE EACH FILM AS IF IT WERE THY LAST."
"Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here"
"The Universe contains three things that cannot be destroyed; Being, Awareness and LOVE"
"The three most difficult things in life are: 1. To keep a secret. 2. To forget an injury. 3. To make good use of leisure."
"Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living."
"When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind."
"***Three Conditions of Happiness*** If you have work to do If you have someone you love If You have hope Then You are Happy now!"
"There are three stages of an actor's career. Young, old, and "You look good"."
"I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more."
"Three rules for a career: 1) Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy yourself; 2) Don’t work for anyone you don’t respect and admire; and 3) Work only with people you enjoy."
"The Times is speechless, and takes three columns to express its speechlessness."
"There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering."
"Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them."
"Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one."
"Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three."
"I've had three wives, six children and six grandchildren and I still don't understand women"
"Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language."
"It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world."
"I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me."
"A major writer combines these three - storyteller, teacher, enchanter - but it is the enchanter in him that predominates and makes him a major writer."
