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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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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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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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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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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But people only die in proper duels, you know, with real wizards. The most you and Malfoy’ll be able to do is send sparks at each other. Neither of you knows enough magic to do any real damage. I bet he expected you to refuse, anyway.” “And what if I wave my wand and nothing happens?” “Throw it away and punch him on the nose,” Ron suggested.
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There is no evidence that dogs have the kind of complex emotional lives and value systems that we do. It's one reason why we love them so much, in fact. They are neither "good" nor "bad." They don't hold grudges, act in petty ways, or seek revenge. They read our moods, but not our minds.
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I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.
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My little 8-year-old brother drew a picture of three cats and he wrote 'Cat Empire' under them. When we were looking for a name, I saw that drawing and it stuck with us.
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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.
