#die

If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you. ↗

— David Frum

#anybody #audience #become #born #britain

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#again #beginning #follow #i #mathematics

A bad guy always assumes he's going to win, whereas the good guy has to struggle with, what if I lose?, and the audience wants to struggle with him. ↗

— David Gallagher

#assumes #audience #bad #bad guy #going

The writer studies literature, not the world. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#studies #world #writer

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#literature #reads #studies #will #world

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#conviction #diagnosis #excessively #extremism #identifiable

You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience. ↗

— Anna Held

#discover #entertain #how #instinctively #you

If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say that he cannot make use of those laws to cover the surface of a small planet with living creatures? ↗

— Martin Gardner

#cover #creates #creatures #dancing #god

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them. ↗

— Judy Garland

#audience #bring #drama #i #know

Our dog died from licking our wedding picture. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#died #dog #licking #our #picture