Amy Poehler Quotes

If you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with without denigrating them or insulting them, then you may actually be heard.

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• Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Up
  • May
  • Character

• Change is no threat to culture.

  

  Wade Davis
  • Culture
  • Change
  • Threat

• I really like funny women. I'm drawn to women like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig, Amy Schumer. They're writers, they're producers, they're actresses. They're brilliant, funny, excellent women.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Like

• For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Stories
  • Approach
  • Conservative

• We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Life
  • Work
  • Value

• The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Up
  • Great
  • She

• I go to the pub, hang out with my family - that's pretty much it. I also do a lot of sports when I get the chance. I'm actually a pretty mellow guy.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Family
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Goal

• What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • People
  • Best
  • Ideas

• Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Power
  • Remember
  • Political

• At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Important
  • Day
  • End

• The great thing about having a pool in L.A. is that I can use it year-round. And since I've always been an athlete, staying fit is very important.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Great
  • Important
  • Athlete

• Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Notes
  • Pure
  • Anywhere

• Hair wax is my go-to. When it comes to shampoo, I use whatever is at the rink.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Hair
  • Whatever
  • Wax

• One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Work
  • America
  • Color

• Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.

  

  Randy Forbes
  • Important
  • America
  • Success

• When we talk about 9/11 and 26/11 - which is the shorthand for the Mumbai attacks in 2008 - we're talking about the most successful terrorist attacks in history. When you start trying to study the most successful event of its kind, it actually doesn't make for great fiction because there isn't the kind of failure in it that fiction thrives on.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Great
  • Trying
  • History

• I don't subscribe to the thinking that being typecast is a bad thing.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Thinking
  • Bad
  • Being

• When I meet a person and that chemistry is there, I cannot hide the electricity. I need to learn more about him, and once I feel safe, I'm gone, I'm in love, and I give it my all!

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Love
  • Person
  • Feel

• Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.

  

  A. E. Waite
  • World
  • May
  • Firsts

• The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothing to do with the family a woman is born to. It is a desire to know and be known by someone who shares blood and body, history and dreams.

  

  Elizabeth Fishel
  • Family
  • May
  • History

• The statesmen of the world who boast and threaten that they have Doomsday weapons are far more dangerous, and far more estranged from 'reality',than many of the people on whom the label 'psychotic' is affixed

  

  R. D. Laing
  • People
  • World
  • Reality

• When the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to madness like the small drops of water torturers let fall ceaselessly upon one spot of their victim's body, I loved the irradiate refuge of sleep. In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Small
  • Fall

• If you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with without denigrating them or insulting them, then you may actually be heard.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • May
  • Person
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