#ty

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it. ↗

— John Updike

#comes #encouragement #essential #know #mad

Eighty percent of what everyone's talking about never happens. I don't mean in terms of product development that's happening right now, I'm talking about the far-flung visions of the future. ↗

— Jay Chiat

#development #eighty #everyone #future #happening

I love visiting LA. It's an endlessly fascinating city, and is, of course, America's entertainment capital. Each time I go, I fall in love with it all over again. That said, it's not the sort of place I'd want to live. ↗

— Lee Child

#america #capital #city #course #each

I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer. ↗

— Lee Child

#desks #email #empty #i #internet

They missed a great opportunity to shut up. ↗

— Jacques Chirac

#great opportunity #missed #opportunity #shut #shut up

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. ↗

— John Updike

#appeals #become #child #childlike #count

She's a reflection of my fascination with the diversity of America she's totally normal in New York, but a freak in Texas. There are dozens of such clashes in America. ↗

— Lee Child

#clashes #diversity #dozens #fascination #freak

The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive. ↗

— Lee Child

#big #bigger #british #cliff #either

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl. ↗

— Shirley Chisholm

#begins #doctor #emotional #females #girl

The power of visibility can never be underestimated. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#power #underestimated #visibility