Amy Poehler Quotes

Rooting for other people's failure does get in the way of your success.

Amy Poehler

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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Baruch Spinoza
- Hope
- Fear
- No Fear
A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.

Hans Frank
- Years
- Will
- Guilt
I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.

Harlan Coben
- Book
- Guy
- Change
When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.

Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Famous
- Wanted
- Kid
I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.

Jack White The White Stripes
- Music
- Broken
- Down
My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.

Damon Wayans, Jr.
- Up
- Pretty
- Dad