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The only way to learn writing is by writing. Talent, as charming as it sounds, amounts to no more than 12 per cent of the process. Work is 80 per cent. The remaining 8 per cent is 'luck' or 'zeitgeist' - in short, things that are not in our hands.
Elif Safak
Work
Writing
Luck
Our
Way
Per
Charming
More
Only
Remaining
Talent
Learn
Sounds
Than
Hands
Short
Cent
Process
Zeitgeist
Amount
Things
In my business - SAT tutoring - you get used to sighs. A client's mother frets over the sheer amount of work her daughter has to do to get her score up, until she reaches the resigned moment when she will sigh and observe that no one thought you could prepare for the SAT back when she took it - it was 'untutorable.'
Eliot Schrefer
Work
You
Business
Mother
Will
Thought
Daughter
Took
Back
Sigh
Sighs
Could
No-One
Observe
Over
Until
She
Sheer
Client
Fret
Score
Up
Get
Used
Moment
Sat
Prepare
Her
Amount
Resigned
Oh, I do a tremendous amount of rewriting. I just obsessively rewrite. Although sometimes there are sections, sometimes you're just lucky and a paragraph will just kind of come out. And that's great. But that's not ordinary in a day's work.
Elizabeth Strout
Work
Day
Great
You
Sometimes
Will
Tremendous
Tremendous Amount
Sections
Out
Kind
Paragraph
Come
Although
Oh
Just
Rewrite
Rewriting
Just Kind
Ordinary
Lucky
Amount
People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and anger that moved her along, or she wouldn't have been able to fight against that depression to produce such an incredible body of work by the age of thirty.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Work
Depression
Great
Anger
Age
Fight
People
Poet
Ambition
Think
Thirty
Incredible
Able
Had
Along
She
Been
Getting
Moved
Sensitive
Against
Poor
Produce
Body
Who
Her
Amount
Everything good takes a great amount of effort. Like, things went wrong with 'Prozac Nation' so much, and it went through so many rejections and incarnations, but I felt so much that it needed to exist. But if I hadn't been so persistent and insistent, it wouldn't have happened.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Good
Great
Nation
Everything
Insistent
Through
Takes
Wrong
Like
Felt
Been
Exist
Persistent
Effort
Prozac
Happened
Much
Many
Amount
Things
Rejections
Needed
There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality.
Ellen Pompeo
Good
Equality
Complex
Out
Characters
TV
Sexism
More
Remarkable
Put
Mess
Because
Female
Female Characters
Male
Just
Interesting
Flawed
Deep
Amount
No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth.
Ellen Terry
Youth
Part
Make
Make Up
Loss
Up
Skill
Actress
Amount
If you're going to plan a wedding, then a certain amount of suffering is not a choice.
Ellie Kemper
You
Suffering
Wedding
Going
Plan
Then
Choice
Certain
Amount
If you're tired, you shouldn't make yourself exercise. Take a nap instead. It's about getting an appropriate amount of work and rest. I get very crabby if I'm not well-rested.
Ellie Kemper
Work
Tired
You
Yourself
Rest
Appropriate
About
Take
Instead
Nap
Make
Exercise
Very
Get
Getting
Amount
Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.
Elon Musk
Environmental
Good
Food
Natural
Enormous
Wilderness
Neither
Crops
End
Up
Either
Which
Ethanol
Require
Amount
Having the gastric sleeve procedure and losing 120 pounds, it was a huge difference in how I look in such a short amount of time. It really garnered all the attention.
Elvis Duran
Time
Losing
Sleeve
Having
Pounds
Attention
Look
How
Huge
Huge Difference
Short
Difference
Procedure
Really
Amount
Gastric
I've never loved a character as much as I do Niska. The way she's been written is so complex, with huge amounts of light and dark. It's a really satisfying challenge to play someone who is superhuman in their intelligence and physical ability but completely naive when it comes to certain aspects of life.
Emily Berrington
Life
Character
Intelligence
Dark
Light
Challenge
Way
Complex
Ability
Physical
Physical Ability
Someone
Superhuman
Never
Written
Naive
She
Been
Huge
Huge Amounts
Loved
Much
Really
Certain
Aspects
Who
Satisfying
Play
Amount
Managing directors at top-tier investment banks may pocket a million a year and be worth tens of millions after a long career. Early employees at tech firms like Uber, Airbnb, and Snapchat can make many times that amount of money in a matter of years.
Emily Chang
Money
Worth
Matter
Long
Employees
Year
Airbnb
Pocket
Long Career
Directors
Investment
Tens
Tens Of Millions
Like
Make
Years
Snapchat
Times
Managing
May
Banks
After
Many
Tech
Amount
Million
Early
Millions
Career
I think there's an incredible amount of people who know not only what we're feeling but know people who have lost their lives to gun violence.
Emma Gonzalez
People
Gun
Feeling
Lost
Think
Incredible
Only
Know
Who
Lives
Amount
Violence
School is very important; it was very important for me. It gave me an enormous amount of confidence, especially at Yale where we were dealing with all the classics. In dealing with the classics, you are dealing with the very best.
Enrico Colantoni
Best
Me
You
Confidence
School
Important
Enormous
Gave
Classics
Yale
Dealing
Were
Very
Where
Amount
The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you.
Eric Allin Cornell
Me
You
Energy
Distinguish
Detector
Various
Particles
Sort
How
Different
Explained
Spark
Chambers
Amount
Basis
The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was very fortunate I had the right amount of time.
Eric Bana
Time
Had
Accent
Learn
Israeli
Overly
Very
Familiar
Scratch
Fortunate
Right
Amount
It takes a huge amount of effort to move from a successful high-tech prototype to broader adoption of an imaging technology.
Eric Betzig
Technology
Broader
Adoption
High-Tech
Takes
Prototype
Huge
Huge Amount
Effort
Move
Successful
Amount
Imaging
The question was, 'Is there a way of minimizing the amount of damage you're doing so that you can then study cells in a physiological manner while also studying them at high spatial and temporal resolution for a long time?'
Eric Betzig
Time
You
Long
Long Time
Way
High
Temporal
Physiological
Study
Studying
Also
Doing
Question
Cells
While
Them
Then
Manner
Spatial
Amount
Damage
Resolution
Turner Broadcasting went from a very entrepreneurial, risk-taking company where I had a tremendous amount of freedom and autonomy to a corporate, bureaucratic nightmare.
Eric Bischoff
Freedom
Tremendous
Tremendous Amount
Corporate
Broadcasting
Risk-Taking
Entrepreneurial
Had
Very
Bureaucratic
Where
Autonomy
Turner
Company
Amount
Nightmare
I won't read scripts because I have a limited amount of time. Why should I help other people do lame stuff when I can just go out and put on lame stuff of my own?
Eric Idle
Time
People
Own
Other
Out
My Own
Put
Stuff
Read
Because
Limited
Go
Just
Lame
Scripts
Should
Help
Why
Amount
It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.
Eric Lindros
Time
You
Practice
Spend
Put
Counts
Amount
Necessarily
You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom.
Eric Ries
Wisdom
You
Perseverance
People
Key
Vision
Other
Folk
See
Seeing
About
Entrepreneurship
Fair
Fair Amount
Know
Talk
Redeem
Always
How
Really
Actually
Amount
If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker's bet. Sure, some entrepreneurs make a lot of money, but if you calculate the amount of stress-inducing work and time it takes and multiply that by the low likelihood of success and eventual payoff, it is not a great way to get rich.
Eric Ries
Success
Work
Time
Great
You
Money
Entrepreneur
Rich
Way
Some
Bet
Entrepreneurs
Takes
Calculate
Likelihood
Make
Great Way
Sure
Becoming
Goal
Lot
Get
Low
Your
Payoff
Sucker
Multiply
Eventual
Amount
Games of chance often involve some amount of skill; this does not make them legal. Good poker players often beat novices. But poker is still gambling, and running a poker room - or online casino - is illegal in New York.
Eric Schneiderman
Good
Legal
Casino
Running
Some
Online
Beat
Poker
New
Involve
Make
Does
Still
York
Often
New York
Room
Them
Skill
Gambling
Games
Illegal
Novice
Amount
Players
Chance
I've obviously made a very nice amount of money. I have a very nice lifestyle. I get to do what I love. Very few actors get to do that, and even fewer are lucky enough to work steadily for 24 years.
Erika Slezak
Work
Love
Money
Made
Few
Nice
Enough
Steadily
Lifestyle
Obviously
Years
Very
Get
Fewer
Lucky
Even
Actor
Amount
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