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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We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music.
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Art takes whatever - and as long as - it takes.
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He closed his eyes, dropping his forehead against hers. “You’ll be the death of me, Elena.” She smiled. “You need a little excitement in that boring old life of yours.
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For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.
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I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible.
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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.
