Elayne Boosler Quotes
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My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do.
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That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.
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What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
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When I was growing up, it was so embarrassing to be from Jersey.
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People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that.
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I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
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When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.
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My first book didn't even have a Canadian publisher. And that upset me, because I so wanted a readership up there.
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A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what it's afraid of, what it's trying to hide - then write that.
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Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.
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I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was really drawn to it.
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It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.
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My wife doesn't even want to spend 2 hours with me.
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How, then, shall God give himself entirely to that one who, besides his God, loves creatures still?
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The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.
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You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some action.
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I'd like to credit my speed to my grandfather. But he was also a quiet player. He didn't talk much. He just went out there on the field and did his own thing.
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Every gay person must come out. As difficult as it is, you must tell your immediate family. You must tell your relatives. You must tell your friends if indeed they are your friends. You must tell the people you work with. You must tell the people in the stores you shop in. Once they realize that we are indeed their children, that we are indeed everywhere, every myth, every lie, every innuendo will be destroyed once and all. And once you do, you will feel so much better...
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Designers don't put out the same sweater every year. They just keep creating.
