Amy Poehler Quotes
You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look.
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.
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In France and other European countries, film stars are more celebrated. In Germany, if we are good at what we do, we are respected but not acclaimed. And, of course, we are not paid like Americans are.
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Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they're going to be bigger than Phil Collins is the wrong way to do it!
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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Let's have some new cliches.
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Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to me, though. I often sit there, thinking, 'I love this, but I wouldn't put my daughter on the stage.'
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.
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After thousands of hours of news coverage, we have learned that Hillary is a liar and Barack is a terrorist or something.
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President Trump's seeming renunciation of an anti-interventionist foreign policy is the great surprise of the first 100 days, and the most ominous. For any new war could vitiate the Trump mandate and consume his presidency.
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And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.
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I think we ultimately ought to look to put all uranium enrichment and fuel reprocessing, if any is done, under multinational control. Those are the two technologies by which nuclear energy can be translated into nuclear weapons programmes.
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You can play women who have a face on or who zip something up, but you have to dig deeper to actually find the humanity and real aspects.
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I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess.
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I'm currently doing a Soul Pancake show called Top of the Monday, which is basically a good morning news show. It's just me being silly, telling people about good news that's going on in the world, putting them in the mood to start their week.
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As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.
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You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look.
