Amy Poehler Quotes
I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine months pregnant now have to work till the bitter end - they don't get to be on TV.
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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My first priority is trying to protect my family.
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I love food - I am never on a diet - I swear to God!
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At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.
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We learn only to ask more questions.
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It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.
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Swimming took up so much of my faculties, and for so long, I was willing to give it everything.
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I know that I'm a natural attacking player. I love to attack. I love to play freely; I love to combine and play through balls. That's the nature of my game.
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
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I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine months pregnant now have to work till the bitter end - they don't get to be on TV.
