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What I tell you three times is true. — Lewis Carroll
I've been married three times - and each time I married the right person. — Margaret Mead
Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end… — Ernest Hemingway
Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. — William Shakespeare
By the time I wrote those first three songs for his new CD ... I wanted to push the poetics as hard as I could… — Steve Earle
I write very sporadically. I write sometimes three things in a week and then nothing for a year. I make a space for it but… — David Crosby
I'm not in a situation where you get a thousand scripts. You want to make a living, you want to put your kids through school.… — Eugene Levy
Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats. — Victor Borge
Once you hit 40, you can't do it anymore. Who's got this energy to go on three hours of sleep? You just can't do it. — Marta Kauffman
My favorite song he ever wrote was 'Cold Cold Heart.' If you think about it, the lyric to 'Cold Cold Heart,' see how many two… — Don Helms
Not too many songwriters, when they write songs go for broke. When someone does who's really good, it's astonishing. There's a reason a three-minute song… — Lou Reed
Enthusiasm is big. When I write a book, it's a three-year commitment. Toward the end, I'm writing seven days a week, and it's exhausting but… — Nathaniel Philbrick
Besides my fast and slooow songs, I further divide my work into three main song types: the ballad or story song, the variation on a… — David Massengill
I use three main tools in writing: instinct, hard work and dumb luck. Dumb luck is missing a train and, while you wait for the… — David Massengill
I give myself the luxury of time in shaping a song. It's very common for me to work three months or more on a single… — David Massengill
I typically will work on a lyric in a three-ring binder. On the right side, I'll write the lyric, and on the left side, I… — James Taylor
You're never quite sure where the song is going, because you might not find the word to rhyme with the end of the line. You… — Annie Lennox
All of a sudden there's a song - there in your hotel room playing your guitar - and you write it, and two or three… — Townes Van Zandt
There's two or three kids out there trying to make good music, and the rest of them sound like it's been strained through some kind… — Merle Haggard
We are really in a rut with the three-minute song. You know where it's going to go. If you're trying to get your message across… — Jimmy Webb

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