Amy Sedaris Quotes
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When you see Major League Baseball putting academies in other countries, obviously that throws up a red flag. You wonder why they ain't going up in our neighborhood. Bottom line, what I see, I talk about... I see it over and over. If anybody can show me I'm wrong, then show me.
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Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.
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I began tailoring my books to cater to one or another universe of readers. I found it incredibly boring; and frankly, it felt stultifying. I'd previously been in advertising. I felt if I was going to create something to fit a specific market, I might as well have stayed with advertising.
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I think it is very important for all actors to complete their studies side by side.
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Looking after a disabled child pushes you to the limits of what you can cope with... physically, emotionally. It's because there's this baby, this child that you love more than you can possibly imagine, in some way more than a normal child because you worry about them 24 hours a day. But at the same time you are so, so proud of them.
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It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.
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Maybe I didn't have the childhood people think you should have, but I still went through the ages; I was still a child.
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Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture.
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We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.
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Life is so much easier when I allow myself to be myself and go with the flow. Whatever that looks like on a given day. If I can get quiet enough to truly check-in with myself, I usually end up on the right track.
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I wanted to write with emotional honesty and tell a story people could connect with. And I wanted people to know how the foster system in America fails children; and how, at 18, they fall through the cracks. Then we can all work together and give support.
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'More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing.'
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I feel I no longer fit in with these times.
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We reach vague-gesturing hands, we lift our heads,Hear sounds far off,-and dream, with quivering breath,Our curious separate ways through life and death.
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There is no tariff so injurious as that with which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities. It dwarfs the soul by shutting out truths from other continents of thought, and checks the circulation of its own.
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Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third.
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For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none.
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I did grow up in a small town. I grew up in a lot of different places. But I consider my home to be Cleveland.
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Canada is one of the few places left where the small decencies are observed. If, as a young man, I was scornful of the country because we always seemed so far behind style-setting New York, I now thank God for the cultural lag. Ours, after all, is the good neighbourhood. A society well worth preserving.
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People who refuse to accept unpleasant truths have no right to complain about politicians who lie to them. What other kind of candidates would such people elect?
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One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
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Vergeef me, ik heb niet voor niets de naam een bundeltje tegenspraak te zijn!
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Don't ever doubt yourself because there are enough people in the world that are going to doubt you.
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I'm not ambitious.
