Amy Schumer Quotes
I was always like that, at 5 years old, just demanding equality. I thought it could all be fixed if you called attention to it.
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The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
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I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it's never bothered me. They've never been weak – they've always got steel in them.
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My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
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Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.
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When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don't need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.
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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
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Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.
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Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.
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I never once dreamed of sort of being able to be in an American TV series, you know? It was all about theater and touring and sort of being an actor around Scottish theater.
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It's always hard to deal with injuries mentally, but I like to think about it as a new beginning. I can't change what happened, so the focus needs to go toward healing and coming back stronger than before.
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I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk.
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Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.
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I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.
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That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.
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I studied at university for a term and a day, and then I dropped out.
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I have good hope that there is something after death.
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I'm not really the one in my family who knows everything that's going on, because I don't really pay attention.
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Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right.
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I was always like that, at 5 years old, just demanding equality. I thought it could all be fixed if you called attention to it.
