Elayne Boosler Quotes
I love my parents and they're wonderful people, but they were strict, and I still look for ways to get even. When I got my own apartment for the very first time and they came to stay with me for the weekend, I made them stay in separate bedrooms.Elayne Boosler
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
Karen Bender -
Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
Fareed Zakaria -
It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
Mahalia Jackson -
It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
Ed Greenwood -
Some films shouldn't be remade.
Ram Charan -
It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
Nancy Kerrigan
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
Damien Hirst -
Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
Sally Schneider -
If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
Maajid Nawaz -
The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
Oliver Tambo -
As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
Brown Campbell -
To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
La'Porsha Renae
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
Samuel Larsen -
People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
Patricia Kaas -
One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
Natalie Imbruglia -
I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.
Ralph Steadman -
I make my own face exfoliant at home, using finely ground rice powder mixed with milk or yogurt. I also treat my skin to a honey, rose water, glycerine and lemon face pack. The honey moisturises, and the lemon removes impurities.
Yami Gautam
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In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale.
Anil Kapoor -
That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.
Garth Brooks -
It will never be Hollywood, the same way people think it should be. I think it will grow and it will be healthy and it will expand into more than one production house.
Ann Macbeth -
To get our economy back on track and keep it functioning properly without the problems of our financial institutions, we need reasonable regulations that will protect Main Street while at the same time allow Wall Street to do what it does best - make money for American investors.
Marsha Blackburn -
[T]he truth is that drug addicts have a disease. It only takes a short time in the streets to realize that out-of-control addiction is a medical problem, not a form of recreational or criminal behavior. And the more society treats drug addiction as a crime, the more money drug dealers will make "relieving" the suffering of the addicts.
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I love my parents and they're wonderful people, but they were strict, and I still look for ways to get even. When I got my own apartment for the very first time and they came to stay with me for the weekend, I made them stay in separate bedrooms.
Elayne Boosler