Elayne Boosler Quotes
While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their own throats; they keep reducing space for the one feature that attracts new young readers in the first place; the comic strips.
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In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'
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The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.
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Judi Dench has always been the benchmark for me. Everything I have seen her do is incredible. I also really admire Cate Blanchett. In terms of people I have worked with, there is no one more admirable than Hugh Jackman, for his spirit, energy, generosity and hard work.
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I read mails throughout the day but answer mails more in the morning and evening.
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I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
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I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.
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My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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'Bramhotsavam' is a celebration of families, life and togetherness. It's a film I hold close to my heart.
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When something's good, I'm not an over-celebrator.
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I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.
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The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious. [...because they focus on what they don't have rather than being grateful for what they have, which is always better than some others.]
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To eat the boiled head of a pig sliced like salami is very strange. It may seem cutting edge, but it's actually a lot older than any of the other traditional salami.
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You need to support human development and human capital as much as possible. And we've had 25 years of programs, great programs. We supported 125,000 surgeries. We fund 15,000 scholarships every year for college and higher education. We gave bicycles for rural areas. We gave laptops.
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I hope they find some way to come up with a new story that involves Beast in my timeline.
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While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their own throats; they keep reducing space for the one feature that attracts new young readers in the first place; the comic strips.
