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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I don't know if I will ever get sick of performing a song called 'Feels Like Loneliness' from Evolution. It's inspired by one of my favorite songs, 'Fever' by Peggy Lee. It's got a jazzy feel to it and I'm always able to put on a bit of character when I sing it, which is fun.
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When we're in the studio, and we sing that first note on that record, you're committing to being a Backstreet Boy!
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I like that free spirit where you can laugh together and argue. I love a writer's room.
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I never, ever, saw the evil Steve Jobs. He was always the most well-mannered and respectful guy I knew. And we got to be pretty good friends. He didn't suffer fools gladly. I guess he didn't think I was a fool.
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I feel genius in great works of art. I have seen medical cures that science can't explain, some seemingly triggered by faith. The same is true of millions of other people.
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Girls, if a boy says something that isn't funny, you don't have to laugh.
