"Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's nothing more satisfying."

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Source : "A Conversation with Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins". Interview with Sharon London, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Elayne Boosler

#Home Quotes #Writing Quotes #Night Quotes

“If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it.”
“You walked out of my dreams and into my car.”

Source : Song: You're Sixteen
“Printing and transporting paper is very expensive, and e-books eliminate the expensive four-color printing, the higher quality paper, the ocean shipping, the customs clearance, the inventory, answering the telephone, writing up the orders, picking, packing and shipping and managing all of these functions. So we eliminate a huge number of costs and the chance that those books won't sell.”

Source : "The Future Of Children's Books". "All Things Considered" with Mary Louise Kelly, www.npr.org. February 18, 2012.
“When I test I never go right to the limit. Only because when you are below the limit you can go at the same speed all day, and that's the only way you can be absolutely sure about what you are testing.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Stop inviting walls into wide open spaces.”
“Most of the time you don't even know they're there. Now, that's the scary thing. It's really strange and invading, but I'm still working it all out. I try to not let it bother me. And if I want to swim naked in my pool, I'm still going to do it. I certainly don't want to feel that I have to change everything in my life that I do to cater to them. I just won't let it happen.”
“The first eight years of schooling was with all white people. So that helped me to understand how white people think. I think that transition is what helped me bridge the gap, because that's what my success has really been about: bridging the gap between the black community and the white community.”
“It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first learned the importance of accuracy in journalism.”

Source : Charles Osgood (2004). “Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack: A Boyhood Year During World War II”, Large Print Press

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