Amy Poehler Quotes
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We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work, it doesn't matter. But work is third.
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I think we should stop asking people in their twenties what they 'want to do' and start asking them what they don't want to do.
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Anyone who has the kind of inventive and inspired comic sensibility to be able to do that kind of work must be pretty talented.
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Any actor or actress that tells you that they don't watch their stuff is lying.
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So, if you're doing good longform with talented people than you can step out and you can be the president or a construction worker and people accept that. It's really the roles you give yourself.
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I was the daughter of teachers, so school was always very important. I liked it.
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To some people, not caring is supposed to be cool, commenting is more interesting than doing, and everything is judged and then disposed of in, like, five minutes. I'm not interested in those kinds of people. I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails or looks stupid; who jumps and falls down, rather than the person who points at the person who fell, and laughs. But I do sometimes laugh when people fall down.
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I find my relationships at 40-plus are really emulsified, juicy relationships because you have more of a sense of who you are and who you want to be around.
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I cannot stress enough that the answer to life's questions is often in people's faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while, and look in people's faces. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous or asleep.
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I like to do things that challenge me and make me nervous.
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I grew up watching skating all the time in the Olympic stuff.
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Forgiveness is something that's always possibility.
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Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortablene ss directly correlates to your happiness and general well-being. See what I just did there? I saved you thousands of dollars on self-help books. If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet, you will be happier.
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Make no a complete sentence.
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Your career and your passion don't always match up. Plenty of talented people don't have the careers they want. Plenty of untalented people make millions and make movies. There is a difference between determination and talent.
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Treat your career like a bad boyfriend... Your career wont take care of you. It won't call you back or introduce you to its parents. Your career will openly flirt with other people while you are around... You have to care about your work, but not about the result. You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look.
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Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
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Listen. Say yes. Live in the moment. Make sure you play with people who have your back. Make big choices early and often.
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The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.
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You can't look stupid if you're having fun.
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People who read are people who dream, and we connect through the stories we live and tell and read.
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Doing what you're afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that- that's what life is.
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I think real life couples on screen are kind of deadly. For the most part, they're kind of deadly. You'd be surprised. Unless they're falling in love onscreen for the first time, you don't have quite the same energy for some reason.
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However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, 'I'm just crying because of how wrong you are.'