Amy Sedaris Quotes
I never really take shortcuts. I was always one of those people who, instead of cutting across someone's yard on the way home from school, I would go to the end of the block and turn.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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For me, if I'm just killing time, I play solitaire. I'm also guilty of playing Snood. I like games where I can shoot balls and match colors.
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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With about a dozen assorted ongoing conflicts in the news every day, and with the stories becoming more horrific, the level of sadness becomes unbearable. And what becomes of our planet when that sadness becomes apathy? Because we feel helpless. And we turn our heads and turn the page.
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But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
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Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.
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I love the element of surprise, throwing people off of what they think they know about what I can do and who I am. I just want to keep doing that.
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I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.
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Whatever I might have imagined a terminal diagnosis would do to my spirit, it summoned quite the opposite - the greatest appreciation for life itself. So I will never give up, and I will never give in.
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I have a very eclectic taste when it comes to music.
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I never really take shortcuts. I was always one of those people who, instead of cutting across someone's yard on the way home from school, I would go to the end of the block and turn.
