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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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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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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I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
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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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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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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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You really want a company full of missionaries, not mercenaries.
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Mom and I…we're both very flaky people.
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I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that it's perfectly acceptable to make a comment on your appearance when they don't even know you.
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In business, I loved cars. I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning. Only in America can you decide to get a good education and pursue what you like.
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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.
