Elayne Boosler Quotes
Real comedy can't be learned; it comes from a need for justice. The best who stand up, stand up for something.
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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My eye is ever on those who love me.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.
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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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My whole thing is I just always wanted to be a working actor and I just wanted to stop waiting tables.
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I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.
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I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
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We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
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There's only so much you can do until you get on set and see the aesthetics of what you're dealing with. Then you see what the other players are giving to you. It's all about the transfer of energy between different actors.
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Women who have understood fashion and style for so long have always known it's not about having more pieces. It's about having the right pieces and having the pieces that are of a great quality and look like you know what you're doing. You don't have to have a million things on.
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Everything is different - except for publishing itself: getting hold of an amazing author, working to make his or her book the best and best-looking it can be, telling the world.
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We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character - her characters are vigorous and elementary; not for comedy - hers is grim and crude; not for a philosophic view of life - hers is that of a country parson's daughter; but for her poetry. Probably that is so with all writers who have, as she has, an overpowering personality, so that, as we say in real life, they have only to open the door to make themselves felt.
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We've gotten to the point now where Republicans and Democrats have nothing in common besides being members of the 'caustic caucus,' and we can't get anything done.
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Real comedy can't be learned; it comes from a need for justice. The best who stand up, stand up for something.
