Ray Dandridge Quotes
In the Negro Leagues, we'd play three games a day on the weekends. Then we'd ride the bus and travel to play the next day someplace else. You'd hang your shirt out the bus window to dry.
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I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.
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It takes three to make a child.
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I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.
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I think the three Mexican directors - Alejandro Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro - gave all of us foreign, and particularly Latino, directors a big break.
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I had an unhealthy obsession with 'Only Fools and Horses.' I still have to watch an episode with my brother every two or three weeks.
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One out of three jobs in Washington is tied to trade.
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I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.
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When I first came into the league, my first three, four years, I had a teammate from college win a Super Bowl.
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I thought, 'I've been doing this for 16 years professionally. I have a window where I want to play leading parts.'
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I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was cared for when he cut off his ear. I lived in the jail cell where he stayed. And I looked out the window. You remember that picture of the cornfields through the bars? That was what I saw.
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I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.
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There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.
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When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet.
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I think the mistake people make most often when they invest in other kinds of startups is they say, 'This is totally different.' And so the things that matter, like making a product that people desperately want, like talking to customers, they throw this out the window. That is a recipe for heartache and tears.
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We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
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Three thousand, it's just a number. It's just a game.
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I actually washed my window once, and it fell through - it was being held together by the dirt.
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It seems to me that most people are impressed with just three things: how fast you can play, how high you can play, and how loud you can play.
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It is often possible to decide the issue of a battle merely by making an unexpected shift of one's main weight.
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When it comes to jump-starting the intricate machinery of recollection, there's nothing more effective than the scent of approaching death.
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In the Negro Leagues, we'd play three games a day on the weekends. Then we'd ride the bus and travel to play the next day someplace else. You'd hang your shirt out the bus window to dry.
