Amy Poehler Quotes
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I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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I'd love to play a Bond villain. Yeah, I'd love to play a Bond villain. Everyone always says this to me; they always say, 'You've got to be a Bond villain', 'We're going to make you a Bond villain...' But they've never, ever approached me, I've never had a whiff of it. I think I'd love to play a Bond villain; I'd have great fun.
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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.
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I live in a constant state of hyperbole.
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When I was growing up, I was told you could be anything you want to be, but I didn't really believe that because you couldn't be president. Like, I knew that; we never had a black president.
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While I am flattered about the speculation of being enticed out of retirement, I'm happy with life as a bad golfer!
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However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.
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The '80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push ahead like that.
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That's the most important thing to me - that if I'm gonna spend however long it takes to make a movie, give up 14 hours a day for however many weeks or months, then it's very important for me to know that I'm working with people who I respect and enjoy and that we're going for something together.
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I was the daughter of teachers, so school was always very important. I liked it.
