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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I think of the prisoners on 'Orange Is the New Black,' a lot of times, as uplifting.
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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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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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I don't let anything kill my spirit.
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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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I have seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven't.
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Growing up in Europe, tight clothing is pretty standard. When I got to college, clothes were loose, so I was going toward more loose stuff. As soon as I got back to New York, I started wearing suits 25% of the year. Then, I realized how important it is for the suit to really fit you and be tight.
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I want to do 'The Graduate!' When Lorraine Bracco's finished, I'm up for it.
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My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley.
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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.
