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Elayne Boosler Quotes

It doesn't bother me that I'm not a household word on the East Coast. Baton Rouge, Raleigh, Minneapolis - I'm so popular in these cities where you've never imagined an East Coast comedian working.

Elayne Boosler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: August 18, 1952

Topics

Me You Never Where Working Baton

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

Jim Morrison

Fear Pain Violence Feelings Personal

America is haunted by an apparition steeped in slavery, and I wanted to remind everyone that, 'Yo, we've got to handle this.'

Jidenna

Slavery America Everyone Handle Got

As for myself, 'total liberal outlook on life and politics' is not an accurate description.

John Harwood

Life Myself Politics Liberal Outlook

Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.

Maya Lin

Creative Think Thinking You Down

One thing I am really dying to do, while I'm still young and in shape, is an action movie. I would love to do a Lara Croft type of thing that's really physical and tough. I want to have a gun and do martial arts. I would love to get paid to get into the best shape of my life.

Megalyn Echikunwoke

Life Love Best I Am Action Tough

I don't like going to dinner by myself; I'll call for delivery before I do that. It's awkward if you're at a table all alone. I'm sure nobody even notices, but there's something about it.

Max Thieriot

Alone Myself Dinner You Table Going

What you wear in the evening is important for women because it's so personal, and it's so complicated to get it right. I like trousers for evening, especially when they have that width and attitude to them.

Stella McCartney

Attitude Women Evening You Personal

We all have skills, I guess.

Simone Biles

Skills Guess

I think, with my cartoons, the parent-like figures are kind of my own archeypes of parents, and they're taken a little bit from my parents and other people's parents, and parents I have read about, and parents I dreamed about, and parents that I made up.

Roz Chast

Parents People Think Kind My Own Up

Everything I need to know, I learned in Iowa. I grew up here in Iowa.

Michele Bachmann

Know Need Everything Up Here Iowa

I can't read in a car, because I'll get sick. It's almost instant.

Mitski

Car Sick Because Get Almost Instant

We will build the city from scratch. It will be drone-friendly and a center for the development of robotics. We want to create something different. Neom is a place for dreamers who want to create something new in the world, something extraordinary.

Mohammad bin Salman

City World Place Create New Want