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'To Kill a Mockingbird' appeared to highly favorable reviews and quickly climbed to the top of bestseller lists, where it remained for more than eighty weeks. In 1961, the novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. A film adaptation was released in 1962, starring Gregory Peck, and received three Academy Awards.

~Charles J. Shields

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So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

~Chris Ledoux

Topics: Eighty Luck Percent Skill Twenty

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Eighty percent of the cases used in the typical MBA program are about successful companies. Students graduate with this notion that 'If I do everything that the people in those cases did, then my organization will grow and be successful, too.'

~Clayton Christensen

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Eighty per cent of my time is spent on paperwork, hiring musicians, putting bands together, setting up concerts, and 20 per cent is spent on the music. That's the part that you really enjoy, but you can't afford to spend 80 per cent on your music; otherwise, it's not going to happen.

~Colm Wilkinson

Topics: Afford Bands Cent Concerts Eighty Enjoy Going Happen Hiring Music Musicians My Time Otherwise Paperwork Part Per Putting Really Setting Spend Spent Time Together Up You Your

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On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.

~David Ogilvy

Topics: Average Body Cents Copy Dollar Eighty Five Headline Many Out People Read Spent Times Written You Your

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Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week.

~David Steinberg

Topics: Because Being Eighty Hours Hundred Lawyer New New York Sometimes Sucks Week Working York You

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I love it and it is a blessing to be able to have seventy-five to eighty episodes to develop a character and find your voice. You have a similar through voice, and yet you are making different decisions, and so you act differently and you make different choices, as that is what your character would do.

~David Zayas

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I've titled this book 'Eighty Is Not Enough' not just for the obvious play on words, but as a way of expressing the single idea that has governed my entire life, that every moment of life is precious, that every step we take is an adventure, that every day on earth is a gift from God.

~Dick Van Patten

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

~Doris Lessing

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Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.

~Douglas Coupland

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