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.
Elayne Boosler
Quotes to Explore
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
Hans Christian Andersen
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The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.
Barton Gellman
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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.
Samuel Gompers
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
Abba Eban
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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.
Zach Galifianakis
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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.
J. M. G. Le Clezio
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When I was a child, I loved 'The Marble Faun' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The reason I liked it was because it had a beautiful binding. When you're a kid, you like books because they're pretty to look at, and this one had a white calfskin cover and gold edges. That was enough to make me love it.
Edmund White
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My father would sit and design furniture and cabinets - he was a carpenter and cabinet maker - and I would ask for my own piece of paper and pencil. And when I would say, 'What should I draw?' he would push a cartoon under my nose and say, 'Here, draw this.' So the cartoon became a kind of focus of attention.
Burne Hogarth
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What David is, is a very, very good route runner, ... He's showed that he's got patience. He's got really good hints, which normally means you're a real good route runner, when you can go in there and just have a natural way of selling something. All it is is a little hint, but you see the defender take a big bite off of it. He's got real good instincts that way, and he's been around a long time and is just one of the hardest-working, high-quality guys you want to be around.
Joe Gibbs
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The industry looks for white actors and actresses, but it's not the same for black actors. We have to really put the work in.
Chadwick Boseman
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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.
John Donne
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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.
Elayne Boosler
