#gist

Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#also #biologists #build #classify #common

When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while. ↗

— Richard Russo

#back #begin #certainly #close #end

It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard. ↗

— Gabriela Sabatini

#happening #hard #i #know #me

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#cash #cash register #deed #every #life

I started out as a 16 year old registering people to vote. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

#old #out #people #registering #started

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law. ↗

— Solon

#law #magistrates #obey #people #society

I would have been a geologist. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#geologist #i #would

The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#climate #first #founded #gave #glowing

Before you approach a production entity or even a potential producer, you should write up a treatment and register your show with the Writers Guild of America. ↗

— Penelope Spheeris

#approach #before #entity #even #guild