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Cents Quotes

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.74, Wordsworth Editions

I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

It is ten per cent how you draw, and ninety per cent what you draw.

Andrew Loomis (1943). “Figure drawing for all it's worth”, Viking Pr

Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents.

Mary Oliver (1994). “A Poetry Handbook”, p.90, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the US. It took three years to get the accent right.

"The Midas touch". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2009.

100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased.

"The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1949.

Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.

"Björk: what inspires me" by Rebecca Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2012.