Amy Poehler Quotes
The process of divorce is about loading that blanket, throwing it up, watching it all spin, and worrying what stuff will break when it lands.

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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
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If I went in to pitch this show to a network, I would be laughed out of the room.
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I just love to read, learn, and think through complex things.
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I've used my experience from playing sports in almost every aspect of my life. Playing soccer is where I found my voice, and playing softball was where I learned precision, and in every game I learned to play as a member of a team - to work not for my own glory, but for a shared goal.
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I think a lot of the dull parts of first drafts come from a kind of over-managing, intrusive writer who wants to direct traffic. The idea of taking out the parts that the reader could infer is very liberating, and it's weirdly part of radicalizing your work: it allows you to go to new places fast.
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Sausages are just funny. I don't know why. I can't explain it.
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A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.
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The process of divorce is about loading that blanket, throwing it up, watching it all spin, and worrying what stuff will break when it lands.