Amy Poehler Quotes
Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
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I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement.
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Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
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I had one of the best days of my life. I spent the afternoon with my two kids and my ex-wife at Serendipity. Then I came to the theater, and you know, I think I did the play the best I've ever done it.
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My favorite part of the whole filmmaking process is working with a fantastic cinematographer, a fantastic actor or actors, and then just creating emotions and stories. I get so excited by that. That's the part I'm utterly addicted to.
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You can't watch 'Daredevil' or 'Jessica Jones' or the Marvel films and not be aware that the villain has to be awesome. I've always wanted to have more space. And the scope, morally, is more broad for the villain than the hero.
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I am lucky enough to be married to a personal trainer. He's able to whip me into shape pretty quickly.
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Education is neither eastern nor western.
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The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them; and starves himself in the midst of plenty, and most unnaturally cheats and robs himself of that which is his own; and makes a hard shift, to be as poor and miserable with a great estate, as any man can be without it.
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'Society's Child' was a real hard record to start with. That's all you want is for you to put your first record out and have people screaming at you in the streets. But it taught me right away that what I was doing was valuable and important.
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Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness.
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I do believe that mentorship is something I did not get in school, and I don't think it exists in school in a sufficient way.
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Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
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Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
