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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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 love wearing my hair curly, but turning the curling iron all the way up creates curls that look really made up and artificial.
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The only way to meet the modern demon-stration of the powers of darkness is by a demonstration of the power of God.
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There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
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I didn't just fall off the wagon. I let the wagon fall on me.
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Im committed to universal health coverage and education.
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You learn early as an actor that creating your own material is the only way to have any control.
