Elayne Boosler Quotes
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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
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I never really learned photography.
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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I would love to explore film seeing as I have prominently been on television. It would be nice to change it up and focus on film a little bit.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
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That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.
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I'm very fortunate. I have a wonderful family, lots of hobbies and athletic pursuits. I always wanted to have a very well-rounded life.
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If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
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These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, and I think it required a big perception shift. When people have dedicated their lives to something - and spent eight years in college - they just expect that a kid wouldn't be up to doing it.
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I love all kinds of music, and I would write really traditional country songs and songs that were just really out there, that didn't sound country at all, and everything in between.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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You still really fight for good parts. It never stops. It's never a breeze. The people at the top of their game work as hard as the people at the bottom.
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If I'm seeing you, you're going to influence me. I'm sorry - I'm just that way. I'm a big sponge. You can't copyright an aesthetic.
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I think about death. I don't want to die with clothes in the cleaners.
