Amy Poehler Quotes
You learn early as an actor that creating your own material is the only way to have any control.
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If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.
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I have an older brother who is an actor as well.
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I want to encourage women to take control of their health.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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Disney's something to be a little alarmed about. It's not just a little theme park anymore. It's now an ethic and outlook and strategy that goes way beyond central Florida.
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she's worked twice as hard to get there, she's had to prove that she can be the leader, first, and then be funny on top of it. She has to emit a confidence that she's in control.
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I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.
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Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.
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Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
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I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow.
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Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
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Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
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Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
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We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.
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I didn't invent satire. I didn't come up with it. And it will continue to be a very powerful tool to disrupt political taboos and social taboos and religious taboos, because those taboos are always used to control and to curb people's way of creativity and thinking, by making them feel guilty because they want to make a change.
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Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.
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I believe that the great majority of people coming here illegally have no other option. They want to provide for their family. But we need to control our border.
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This was the point of our lives when we found pills, uppers. That's the only way we could continue playing for so long. They were called Preludin, and you could buy them over the counter. We never thought we were doing anything wrong, but we'd get really wired and go on for days. So with beer and Preludin, that's how we survived.
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Shooting at night in Los Angeles is amazing. The city shuts down at 10 P.M. every night, and a whole different cast of characters comes out.
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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
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No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear.
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You learn early as an actor that creating your own material is the only way to have any control.
