Amy Sedaris Quotes
My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea market.
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
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I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
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Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get performance anxiety, so when I'm on tour it can be hard to sleep.
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Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.
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I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.
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How do we get more politicians to move from 'fixing' the system to reforming the system? The obvious answer is to either improve the quality of public services or reduce the public's dependence on them. Both approaches are necessary.
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I grew up with Bond.
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Equipped with two cell phones - one for work and another for home - I like to think of myself as a kind of 21st-century digital pioneer, ready to network, fax, page, e-mail and - oh, yes - talk at will.
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When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.
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When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.
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I firmly believe that as voters come to learn more and more about John Kerry and learn more and more about his message that they're going to want a President who is willing to address the fact that we didn't have a post-war plan in Iraq.
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You don't want to be photographed? You don't want to be known? Then you don't need to be out there peddling movies.
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It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
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Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.
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I've always been fascinated by Eisenstein.
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When I got to the Mavericks people were all giving me advice - change this, change that - and one thing that I didn't do was fire anybody.
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I can always live by my pen.
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The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.
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My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea market.
