Elayne Boosler Quotes

For me, comedy is a day-to-day report on the human condition. It's what's happening right now. I get maybe 20 minutes of my act straight from the newspaper.

Elayne Boosler

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With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.

Barack Obama
- Community
- Changing
Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.

Carl Hiaasen
- People
- Good
- Book
When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.

Carlo Ratti
- Day
- Moving
- Yourself
I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.

Ted Cruz
- Up
- Rock
- Listening
South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.

Damon Galgut
- Small
- Bitter
- Africa
I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.

Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Writing
- Real
- Truth