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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I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
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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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Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.
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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
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I don't do anything unless I think about it six months in advance.
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One of the things that has inspired me so much is knowing that I felt like I could never measure up.
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A woman has just as much right in this world as a man and can get along in it just as well if she puts her mind to it.
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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.
