Amy Sedaris Quotes
Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.
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I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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I got interested in decathlon because a coach that I had was a big fan of Bruce Jenner, and he just saw the ability in me - but when it came down to it, I knew my best chance at a college scholarship would be in track and field.
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In Chicago, they die for their teams.
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I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.
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The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.
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People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to the only One you can trust with that freedom eventually get it back.
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I'm still craving approval from my parents. It took a lot of success for me to realize it was never coming. It's just not in their nature.
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My mom, if you asked her if she was interested in whether or not people gambled, would say no.
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Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great.
