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Ninety percent of the research comes first. I mostly blunder around reading stuff and talking to smart people until an idea batters or oozes its way through to my narrative brain.
Scott Westerfeld / Writer
Brain
Narrative
Ninety
Percent
Reading
Research
Smart
Smart People
Talking
Blunder
Mostly
Ninety Percent
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I consider myself a good layman's cook. Ninety percent of the time, I'm successful with what I set out to make, and I can improvise. Yes, I own a mandoline. Yes, we have a Vitamix.
Lake Bell / Actress
Layman
Ninety
Time Good Myself
Ninety Percent
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Ninety percent of video game AI really is pretty damn bad. I think that's actually why it's so much fun to shoot things. Because the AI is so bad and the characters are so annoying.
Matthew Perry / Actor
Annoying
Character
Damn
Fun
Ninety
Thinking
Video
Ai
Ninety Percent
So Much Fun
Video Game
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Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law.
David Byrne / Musician
Crap
Guitar
Law
Ninety
People
Percent
Music Guitar Always
Ninety Percent
Too Many People
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Right now, I'm hankering for new adventures... Ninety percent of the time I'm having romantic-comedy fantasies in which I'm wearing little pencil skirts and hurrying down to the subway.
Mindy Kaling / Actress
Adventure
Hankering
Hurrying
Littles
Ninety
Skirts
Subway
Adventures
Fantasies
Wearing
Ninety Percent
Pencil
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Ninety percent of the time, you're going to hear no. It took me seven years to make 'Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored.' Nobody wanted to see the movie made. I got the movie made.
Tim Reid / Actor
Ninety
Once Upon A Time
Percent
Seven
Years
Colored
Time Me Nobody
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Ninety percent of cyber security companies begin in the detection stage. The issue is there are so many applications and alarming messages it is difficult for the user or the administrator to manage.
Ken Xie /
Cyber
Detection
Difficult
Manage
Messages
Ninety
Percent
Security
Stage
Begin
Administrator
Alarming
Applications
Companies
Issue
Ninety Percent
User
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Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out.
Robbie Coltrane /
Ninety
Percent
Standing
Eyes People Your
Ninety Percent
Tying
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Ninety percent of what I'm listening to overall is like the same tape of Bob Marley's Greatest Hits. Like, how did I become one of those people on late night TV where they sell anthologies to you and you buy them?
Robert Sapolsky /
Marley
Ninety
Tape
Greatest Hits
Hits
Ninety Percent
Overall
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Ninety percent of the coaches in the NBA are guards, and there aren't very many big men people coaching, I happen to be one of them and when I coached, everybody on my team, including the guards, had a hook shot, so that it was their bail out shot.
Tom Heinsohn / Basketball Player
Bail
Hook
Including
Nba
Ninety
Coached
Guards
Ninety Percent
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Ninety percent of all people under 30 are in developing countries, and that means that this new access to tech, which is such a positive thing... is also a ticking time bomb of frustration... You get this clear mismatch of opportunity and expectation.
Ronan Farrow / Activist
Access
Developing
Developing Countries
Frustration
Ninety
All People
Bomb
Expectation
Ninety Percent
Positive Thing
Tech
Ticking
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I was raised by my mom. My dad was always traveling, but she allowed me and encouraged me to be close to my dad. So I grew up with three parents: my mom, my dad and my stepmom. Ninety percent of the time I was with my mom, and 10 percent was with my dad.
Brian J. White / Actor
Dad
Mom
Grew
Ninety
Parent
Percent
Raised
Time Mom Dad
Allowed
Close
Encouraged
Time Dad Mom
Ninety Percent
Traveling
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Ninety percent of touring is a logistical maneuver, moving your body and everyone else's from one city to the next. You're like a piece of gear. Then you jump out of the box, get onstage, and play. That sounds cynical, but it sucks to move around so much.
David Longstreth /
Cynical
Ninety
Percent
Touring
Your Body
Box
Gear
Jump
Logistical
Maneuver
Ninety Percent
Onstage
Piece
Sounds
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You can write anything you want on paper, like blowing up the bridge on the River Kwai, but when you actually have to do that as a director, it's not the same. Ninety percent of directing is not creative - it's putting the theoretical into the practical world.
Brian Helgeland / Screenwriter
Ninety
Paper
Theoretical
Blowing
Bridge
Directing
Ninety Percent
Practical
River
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Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And there's a consistency around the competitive advantages you create, so if you can actually learn how to do the art, the design, and the programming, you would be consistently very profitable.
Gabe Newell / Manager
Art
Design
Consistency
Games
Ninety
Profitable
Programming
Advantages
Competitive
Ninety Percent
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Start-ups often die in the first 18 to 24 months because of formative mistakes, like choosing a bad co-founder or the wrong corporate entity or an inappropriate platform. Ninety percent of the companies the Founder Institute has created are alive because we've helped them avoid those mistakes.
Adeo Ressi /
Alive
Corporate
Entity
Inappropriate
Institute
Months
Ninety
Percent
Die
Mistakes
Avoid
Choosing
Companies
Wrong
Formative
Founder
Helped
Ninety Percent
Platform
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People don't appreciate that when you're on the Internet, it's a 24/7 job. Even if you're not releasing episodes, your show is living and breathing on the Internet because there's a community around it. Ninety percent of the work is after the web series is shot, and you have to constantly maintain your community, because it's all you have.
Felicia Day / Actress
Jobs
Appreciate
Breathing
Episodes
Ninety
People
Work Community Your
Maintain
Ninety Percent
Releasing
Web
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