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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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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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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'Bridesmaids,' I think, opened up a door to allow women to show a bunch of different women in different ways of being funny. It was kind of like an arrival moment.
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You're not going to learn anything if you're not prepared to go flat, so I'm very happy to go flat.
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The gap between being a bad person and being a criminal is often wide.
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He will watch from dawn to gloom The lake-reflected sun illume The yellow bees in the ivy-bloom, Nor heed nor see, what things they be; But from these create he can Forms more real than living man, Nurslings of immortality!
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The waves belong to the Ganges, not the Ganges to the waves. A man cannot realize God unless he gets rid of all such egotistic ideas as 'I am such an important man' or 'I am so and so'. Level the mound of 'I' to the ground by dissolving it with tears of devotion.
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I was the daughter of teachers, so school was always very important. I liked it.
