Elayne Boosler Quotes
Comedy is a blood sport. It flays the truth and spurts twisted logic. In America, people become comics because we don't have bullfighting.
Elayne Boosler
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
Napoleon Hill
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
Wendell Berry
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
Calista Flockhart
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Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
Pat Barker
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Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.
Kate Christensen
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No coach wants to sit back and not have control of the team.
Anne Donovan
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One of the great things about being an older person is that I am very aware of the scope of the work and the historical sense of it. It's bigger than me.
Annie Leibovitz
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You can say, 'I am a poet, rock-climbing shaman, and my name is Hiawatha Moonbeam,' and people in America will say, 'Hey, that's great. All power to you, man'.
Louis Theroux
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Pretty much every gym I go into, I feel very comfortable. I dump my stuff, take my shoes off, do my thing.
Alex Honnold
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I don't think human beings have changed in 2,000 years.
Andrew Dominik
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Comedy is a blood sport. It flays the truth and spurts twisted logic. In America, people become comics because we don't have bullfighting.
Elayne Boosler
