Elayne Boosler Quotes
My family was totally non-religious. There was no question we were Jewish, but we were not observant.
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It's better to do a film that works.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
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The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.
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Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
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Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connected to him.
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It turns out that globalisation, while promising sameness through brand-name consumption, was fostering, through uneven economic growth, an intense feeling of difference.
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Buzz and the right publicist are not only important but crucial in show business.
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Of course it's true: the public want to see young people - young people are the people who go to the cinema. It's a sad fact of life, but you've got to accept it and not whine about it.
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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
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If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.
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Human beings can remain spiritual and religious while enjoying the benefits of rational administration of their affairs.
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My family was totally non-religious. There was no question we were Jewish, but we were not observant.
