Elayne Boosler Quotes
There are many comedians who are afraid to work outside the coasts and the casinos because they're afraid they'll bomb.
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
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I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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If anyone should be executed, it should be Charles Manson. Do I go around during the daytime, 'Geez, I'm upset that he's alive'? No, I don't even think about him. I don't think about this case.
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I'm often drawn to characters that are more obviously one thing. They're passionate, and there is always an element of strength because I think every person possesses that in some way, even if they've experienced hardship in their lives.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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Ray Bradbury published his first story 29 years before I was born. He established himself as an international writer long before I arrived. When my mom was nine months pregnant with me, my father read Bradbury aloud to her as I listened intently, in utero. And I later became his biographer.
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In my 33rd year, I was called to play Jesus.
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I feel really blessed to first of all have the opportunity to do music, and second of all to have it be going well.
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People often say that if you have to work hard at a marriage, then it's not naturally good, but I think that's totally wrong.
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It's like going to the gym everyday. It really is. I work hard on my craft, I sweat a little bit, I run a little bit, I might sprain an ankle every now and them, but it's all good and the more you do it, the more in shape you are and it's like a machine.
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There are many comedians who are afraid to work outside the coasts and the casinos because they're afraid they'll bomb.
