Amy Poehler Quotes
So, if you're doing good longform with talented people than you can step out and you can be the president or a construction worker and people accept that. It's really the roles you give yourself.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
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Negative feedback can make people feel inferior.
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I don't want to know about the lives of other actors and I don't want people to know too much about me. If we don't know about the private lives of other actors, that leaves us as clean slates when it comes to playing characters. That's the point, they can create these other characters and I can believe them.
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Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.
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So, if you're doing good longform with talented people than you can step out and you can be the president or a construction worker and people accept that. It's really the roles you give yourself.
