Elayne Boosler Quotes
Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's nothing more satisfying.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.
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My family is a praying family, a Christian family.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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Hamas has effectively kidnapped Gaza. Instead of turning it into the Singapore of the Middle East that was promised, they have turned it into a fortress of terror.
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I try to live holistically and avoid conventional medicine.
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At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.
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My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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I think it's all about making records when you're inspired to make them.
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Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.
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I did charity events with the Cup all the time.
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Being a teenager is hard.
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The Greatest Generation got to save old tires, dig a Victory Garden and forgo sugar. The Richest Generation is being asked to shop.
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I loved my soap days. I really loved them. A Martinez and Marcy Walker taught me how to act, basically. All those people pulled together and helped get me started. Like, showed me how to hit my mark, made me do this, made me do that. That was my first long-running professional gig. And it was like, they were just - great, great with me.
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It's so much easier for me to get up and be someone else than expressing my own thoughts and feelings. There's definitely something about creating a cloak of a character that helped me deal with my shyness.
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You hear the word 'cancer,' and you think it is a death sentence. In fact, the shock is the biggest thing about a diagnosis of cancer.
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Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's nothing more satisfying.
