Amy Poehler Quotes
It’s very hard to have ideas. It’s very hard to put yourself out there, it’s very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do that are the dreamers, the thinkers and the creators. They are the magic people of the world.Amy Poehler
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
Sam Abell -
Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
Vicki Baum -
I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
Ion Tiriac -
When you fall in love, you become weak.
Zola Jesus -
'SVU' is one of my favorite shows. When I got the call to appear and play myself, I jumped at the chance. Obviously, I went over my lines, but playing yourself is a really great way to get your feet wet in the acting field. I enjoyed being on set and learning as much as I could about the scripted world.
Taylor Hicks -
I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
Oscar Isaac
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
Umberto Eco -
Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
Jack Horner -
Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
Patrick Lencioni -
I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!
Pat Cash -
Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
Walter Cronkite -
I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
E. L. Doctorow
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Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.
Karen Traviss -
Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
Cameron Diaz -
A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
Frances Beinecke -
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
Fidel Castro -
I always thought 'Rome' would change things for me, that people would finally understand what I do.
Danger Mouse -
I grew up in New York till I was 5, and I remember going to see 'Annie' and some musicals as a kid, and I remember my parents being somewhat okay with us watching 'Rocky Horror Picture Show,' which, it boggles my mind that they allowed me to watch it.
Gabriel Macht
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
Only in the case of immigration is the public systematically lied to from every major news outlet. The media lie about everything, but immigration constitutes their finest hour of collective lying.
Ann Coulter -
For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of 'keeping company with God.'
Philip Yancey -
Half the battle with successful podcasts is in the naming; here, the big media owners have a lot to learn from the smaller operators.
David Hepworth -
Being homeless is like living in a post-apocalyptic world. You're on the outskirts of society.
Frank Dillane -
It’s very hard to have ideas. It’s very hard to put yourself out there, it’s very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do that are the dreamers, the thinkers and the creators. They are the magic people of the world.
Amy Poehler