Books on their own aren't insanely expensive compared to other things; three large cappuccinos cost more than a paperback, and two and a half gallons of gas cost more than a paperback.
I just typed up three, four paragraphs of an idea and dropped it in a box at the Chicago Comic Con in the summer of 2000, I guess, or 2001 - I forget. I just dropped it on a stack of a giant pile of dozens of other entries. Months later, I was thrilled to get a call from a Marvel editor while I was working my crappy day-job.
Most cars are parked at any point in time; my estimate is that I use my car about three percent of the time.
With some actors, if I have upward of 10 notes, I don't want to give them all 10 notes and overwhelm them. I usually parse them out three or four at a time.
I started work at 13, had three or four part-time jobs, and learnt very quickly the values of work.
Typically, there's about 20, 25 percent turnover every year. So, every three or four years with the exception of, as is the case with the Patriots and the quarterback, you have a roster turnover.
At Wikinvest, which got renamed Sigfig, we were constantly just two or three months away from not being able to make payroll.
In 1990, my wife and I were married in her village in southwestern Uganda. The festivities went on for three days, and all the while a couple of dozen gray-crowned cranes, with regal bonnets of sun-shot yellow feathers, were pecking and padding around in the adjacent savanna.
As commerce secretary, I led the Clinton administration's effort to ensure China's entry into the World Trade Organization and the permanent normalization of trade between the U.S. and China - steps that produced a 76 percent increase in U.S. exports to China in just three years.
I'm off at least three or four days a week, so it's a perfect job, really.
The Roswell incident, for instance, had over three hundred witnesses - some describing the bodies, some the craft, some the military procedures. Were they all perpetuating their own lives in a myth?
I've got a personal trainer, and I train three times a week.
There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.
'Le Reve' may be one of the three best pictures Pablo Picasso ever painted.
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
By strengthening the three pillars of the United Nations - security, development and human rights - we can build a more peaceful, more prosperous and more just world for our succeeding generations.
I don't need to have three feather pillows in my trailer. I just don't work that way.
The first movie I ever saw in the cinema was Walt Disney's 'Pinocchio,' upon its 1984 re-release, which would have put me at three years old.
I worked three summers putting in sewer pipe and guardrail on the road in Ohio.
