Elayne Boosler Quotes
People want sex education out of the schools. They believe sex education causes promiscuity. Hey, I took algebra, but I never do math.
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and everything. I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal. Therefore, I felt no boundaries.
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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development.
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I'm just not into trying to convince people like me. I always say to myself, 'It is what it is.' I walk into a situation knowing that people are either going to love me or they're not, and that's OK. I'm just going to be me. You can't be everything to everyone.
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If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.
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The culture is eating nature; it's overpowering storytelling. Movies are turning into games - it's abut the image, not nuance.
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People want sex education out of the schools. They believe sex education causes promiscuity. Hey, I took algebra, but I never do math.
