Amy Poehler Quotes
You never know what's around the corner unless you peek. Hold someone's hand while you do it. You will feel less scared.
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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I loved Alessandra Torre's 'Black Lies.'
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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Once upon a time, I was very shy and you wouldn't even see me in a room. Then, when I was 16, I made the conscious decision to not be afraid of anything - this was about the time I picked up the bagpipes too - and my life pretty much changed forever.
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Reading is a huge part of life.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.
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I'm kind of a control freak. I like to be really prepared.
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I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like 'Wow, it's so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.'
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.
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This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.
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The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
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My greatest day is yet to come. Of all the things that I've accomplished, my greatest day is yet to come. But it will never come if I don't pursue it.
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Each time I play a song it seems more real.
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The teacher you need is the person you’re living with.
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I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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'Maybe I shouldn’t have told you-about it being electrical.' She put her hand out, touched his arm; she felt guilty, seeing the effect it had on him, the change.'No,' Rick said. 'I’m glad to know. Or rather-' He became silent. 'I’d prefer to know.'
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You never know what's around the corner unless you peek. Hold someone's hand while you do it. You will feel less scared.
