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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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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We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
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Perhaps the hardest challenge has been to persuade the public, impatient for rapid growth, of the need to ensure stability first. Growth, it is argued, is always more important, regardless of the looming economic risks.
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All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.
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The beauty of voice-over work is that maybe you come in and record once every two weeks for a couple of hours and do a couple episodes a session. It's awesome! You spend an afternoon playing in the booth, and there you have it. It doesn't interfere with much.
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If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.
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We're off the script We're off the lease We can't catch any decent sleep We don't live here anymore
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Nothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party you wouldn''t be seen dead at
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May I stress the need for courageous, intelligent, and dedicated leadership... Leaders of sound integrity. Leaders not in love with publicity, but in love with justice. Leaders not in love with money, but in love with humanity. Leaders who can subject their particular egos to the greatness of the cause.
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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.
