#cent

When I write I know that I'm going to have to produce 40 percent more than I need. ↗

— George Saunders

#i #i write #know #more #need

My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

#any #conversation #hard #i #initiate

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#concentrate #concentration #helps #homework #induces

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#center #intelligence #new #skill #successfully

While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#nearly #saying #speaker #well #while

The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#center #exactly #focus #news

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#career #children #dynamic #early #gave

But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#central #communist #communist party #cults #down

If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#charity #city #family #fruit #hardware

The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up. ↗

— Greta Scacchi

#already #did #five #i #lined