#kills

The idea itself is the ten percent inspiration; the hammering it into a viable, successful, memorable story is the ninety percent perspiration that follows. ↗

— Chris Claremont

#inspirational

I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#command #editing #editor #even #first

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#accorded #animal #been #brings #forth

If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving. ↗

— Lynn Davies

#alongside #becoming #coach #developing #helping

I wasn't really the most charming person, socially - it took me a long time to develop my people skills - but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing. ↗

— Zooey Deschanel

#always #charming #comfortable #develop #i

In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down. ↗

— Phil Harris

#days #development #down #experience #gone

My court skills may have atrophied. ↗

— David E. Kelley

#may #skills

The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#again #get #magic #make #performing

So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills. ↗

— Craig Johnston

#charlton #hiding #i #jack #my time

A man who kills on his own is a murderer. A man who kills at his government's request is a national hero. ↗

— Ramman Kenoun

#hero #his #kills #man #national