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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We would be able to deal with Islam if we were allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.
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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've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.
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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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It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.
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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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I know what it's like to be ignored; when I got to L.A., I longed for somebody who looked like me to show me the ropes.
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There is a tendency in nature to the continued progression of certain classes of varieties further and further from the original type.
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Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.... My theory is a children's book... can be just for fun.
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They (the publishers) would be ecstatic, I just refuse to. You can't repeat a great act.
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You learn early as an actor that creating your own material is the only way to have any control.
