Amy Poehler Quotes

I don't think a man who is fifteen years younger than me should tell me he is proud of me unless he is my sober coach or my time-travel dad.

Amy Poehler

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• There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.

  

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• Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.

  

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• I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

  

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• I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.

  

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• I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Parasol Protectorate' - giggling readers are good.

  

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• I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.

  

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• The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.

  

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• I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?

  

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• The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.

  

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• At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.

  

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• Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.

  

  Damien Hirst
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• I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

  

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  • Matter
  • Accept
  • Someone

• I always enjoy working with an international crew and director. But on the set of a Hollywood action film – now that's a whole other world. The sheer grand scale of the way things are done over there makes me envious; it's just so different from the way things are done in Japan.

  

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• The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.

  

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• To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

  

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• One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

  

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• I realized that, all along, my theory was right: Make music that you want to hear, and instead of having fans that one day might criticize or abandon you, your fans aren't even fans. They're people with tastes similar to yours. They're friends you haven't met yet.

  

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• It just so happened that my agent called and said, 'There's this movie 'Pitch Perfect.' Here are the sides.' I think I originally read for Bumper, because Donald didn't have much in the script, so I read all Bumper's lines. I beatboxed for them, because that's what my character was supposed to do. And then I was like, 'By the way, I rap.'

  

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• The essential problems remain the same... The kids I write about are asking for the same things I wanted. They want two contradictory things. They want to be the same as everyone else, and they want to be different from everyone else. They want acceptance for both.

  

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• Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.

  

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  • Remember
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• When I was a child, I probably should have been medicated about my obsession with The Spice Girls. I had the Buffalo shoes, a customised Baby Spice necklace - when I say custom-made, it was made out of plastic from the local mall - and a Union Jack dress.

  

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  • Baby
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• I don't think a man who is fifteen years younger than me should tell me he is proud of me unless he is my sober coach or my time-travel dad.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Time
  • Man
  • Dad