Amy Poehler Quotes
In conclusion, I invite the media to all grow a pair. And if you can't, I will lend you mine.
Quotes to Explore
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Mum and Dad split up when I was nine. We upped and moved from London to Sussex, and suddenly I went from an urban life to nothing in the countryside - with a new father and new life.
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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
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It's kind of fun to be sexy.
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We know that Texas is more than a state. Texas has always been a promise. The promise that where you start has nothing to do with how far you can come.
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I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.
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I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.
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I've tried to work really hard on never phoning in the lyrics.
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No organization should be allowed near disaster unless they are willing to cooperate with some level of established leadership.
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As my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world.
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Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.
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Anyone who's been to high school with teenage girls knows how horrible girls can be.
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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea that they're the voice of God. I think it's just honest to say, yes, you know where I'm coming from but you can fact-check anything I say.
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I think the first thing that you need to detach yourself from is numbers, because music has now splintered off into so many different forms of media, MTV doesn't play videos, the radio is now competing with the Internet.
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That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.
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Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.
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When plants are growing, they sense how big a root system they have to produce to draw from the soil the nutrients and moisture they need to grow and reach maturity and reproduce. On a conventional farm where there are high levels of fertilizer nutrients in the soil, along with lots of water, there is little incentive for roots to penetrate far.
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In conclusion, I invite the media to all grow a pair. And if you can't, I will lend you mine.
