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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Individualism is important - having a real voice, not just references. I have great respect for the young designers who want to go their own way and try to be a little entrepreneurial, like Thomas Tait today.
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The only difference between comedy and drama is that, in comedy, I'm going to utilize the tool of creating laughter to deflect discomfort and, in drama, I won't use a tool, but we're going to actually deal with the discomfort and see what comes out of it.
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I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want things so much that we sabotage them.
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A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.
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The awkward moment when Santa accidentally leaves the price tag on your present.
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Designers don't put out the same sweater every year. They just keep creating.
