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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Everyone at home thought I was nuts when I said I wanted to be an actress, and I'm sure they were just trying to protect me from disappointment.
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I am eternally 12 years old. I don't know if that's good or bad, but I like to have a good time!
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I learn a lot with actors that I don't think are good. Every experience shapes you. I've had experiences with actresses - and I say actresses because there's just a woman thing - that have achieved what she's achieved, by means that I can't understand.
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I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.
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I don't read books. I read 'On the Road' in high school, and that was awesome, so I guess that's my favorite book. 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' even though I didn't read it, that's the greatest story. SparkNotes came in when I was in high school, and that was the greatest invention.
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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.
