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 didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
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I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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Mon triste coeur bave à la poupe.
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I retweet. I do retweet a lot. I don't have a lot of very original things to say.
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When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you.
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Girls, if a boy says something that isn't funny, you don't have to laugh.
