#about

I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I get going I keep at it, and it usually takes about six months from the first blank screen until 'The End.' ↗

— Lee Child

#afternoon #blank #end #first #get

My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever. ↗

— Lee Child

#calls #else #everyone #jim #lee

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays. ↗

— Daphne Zuniga

#adam #bra #draft #earth #eve

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#anyone #because #before #done #else

Like my colleagues, I did about 10 to 15 town hall meetings on this issue; and what I found is people came with a sincere interest to learn, a sincere interest to cut through the rhetoric and understand how this Medicare bill impacts them in their daily lives. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#bill #came #colleagues #cut #daily

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#easy #easy way #everybody #participating #really

I live on a ranch in Texas and do my own thing. And I don't care what anyone has to say about it. My joke is that the only people I'm trying to please are myself and my fans, because they're the ones buying my records. And I have the best, most loyal fan base ever. ↗

— Kelly Clarkson

#anyone #base #because #best #buying

The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there's this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think, 'Well, you say I'm a pop star, so maybe that's not true.' ↗

— Kelly Clarkson

#about #act #be yourself #being #business

I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines. ↗

— Patricia Clarkson

#i #lines #maybe #more #read

However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma. ↗

— Julian Clary

#everything #goes #however #light-hearted #loss