Amy Poehler Quotes
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.
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I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.
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Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
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If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In fact, if you get bank robberies in the U.K., they're using scooters.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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If I score a goal on the road, I come home, and that's probably the first thing I'm doing, pullin' up the laptop and watching. Can't watch it in front of the teammates, or else I'll get made fun of.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
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Look after yourself; remember that you only consist of your being, so make the best of what you have and look after it. Put good things into your body; eat well.
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Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
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You have to make a lot of sacrifices, and the main thing you have to sacrifice is your privacy. It's funny because when I was growing up, my daddy was and still is an insurance agent in our home town. He couldn't go anywhere without somebody recognizing him or needing something from him.
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The Internet has done nothing but good for comedy all around. Comedians no longer have to rely on TV execs and club owners deciding if they are funny or not.
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I think it's funny that nobody wants to be liked by Washington. All the politicians go, 'I don't like Washington. They don't like me.' I always find it funny that people are trying to distance themselves from Washington as much as they can, even though they're all in Washington.
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Girls, if a boy says something that isn't funny, you don't have to laugh.
