Elayne Boosler Quotes
When I was growing up in comedy, there were maybe 10 comics in the whole country. Everyone had a day job. You worked free for years in little clubs, then you got your big break and became a star.

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I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.
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Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
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Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.
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Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!
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I sing a lot, so if I have lipstick, it gets all over the microphone, so I rarely wear lipstick.
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Sometimes I read a really good script, and I just know that it's not a good fit.
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Because what it turns out is, is that if a - the best way for a country to reduce its debt is to grow really fast, and to generate more income.
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I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. I'm constantly revising this as I go along. It gives me the freedom to intricately plot my story, knowing it will at least hold up on a timeline.
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I decided to always sing in the back with the chorus and never went up front because I had trouble performing.
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Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction.
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When I was growing up in comedy, there were maybe 10 comics in the whole country. Everyone had a day job. You worked free for years in little clubs, then you got your big break and became a star.