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.
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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.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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'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.
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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.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!
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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.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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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.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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I'll take care of it, Luke said. And because he said it instead of her, I knew he meant kill. That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. You do that first, in your head, and then you make it real.
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We know that Medicare's going broke in seven years, but we need to start over. That's what the American people want us to do.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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Around 1969, my family had just bought a house in a lower-middle-class white neighborhood two blocks away from school. Then, all of a sudden, all the white people left the neighborhood and the school.
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All of these people kept on being professional musicians and composers in the strictest sense.
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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.
