Amy Sedaris Quotes

I like to play unattractive people who think they're pretty. You can do what you want, but I prefer to look interesting.

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• I like to do the splits onstage.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Like
  • Onstage
  • Splits

• There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • House
  • Parents
  • Funny

• I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Rock
  • Just
  • Expect

• I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Men
  • Women
  • Daughter

• In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • War
  • Father
  • Year

• I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Good
  • Choices
  • Son

• Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Alone
  • Wall

• I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Good
  • Perfect
  • Woman

• What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • People
  • Game
  • Team

• I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Life
  • Work
  • Hard Work

• Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Voice

• My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Up
  • Help
  • Support

• You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.

  

  Ed Harris
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Often

• We do believe that freedom, the right to choose, the right to vote, respect and justice is the fundamental right of all people. All people must obtain these rights.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Believe
  • Freedom

• Like every girl, we don't talk about our surgeries.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Talk

• Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Kids
  • Father
  • Athletes

• Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Age
  • Colonial

• The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Like
  • Embrace
  • Museum

• I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Silent

• My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Political
  • Culture
  • Place

• I can understand that people are not happy, but they should not use football to make their demands heard

  

  Sepp Blatter
  • People
  • Football
  • Heard

• There is such thing as a 'smart bomb' - bombs are smart these days, you know.

  

  Adolfo Perez Esquivel
  • Smart

• There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed.

  

  David Simon
  • Society

• I like to play unattractive people who think they're pretty. You can do what you want, but I prefer to look interesting.

  

  Amy Sedaris
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Interesting