Amy Sedaris Quotes
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
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But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
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There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.
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The good thing about 'Have I Got News For You' is it's a compact show but it still gives everyone space to breathe, and everyone always gets a chance to say something if they want to. It's a very difficult show to dominate, and guests who come on and dominate always fall foul.
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There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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I have two iPhones: one for day and one for the night. When the day phone runs out, the night phone takes over. I never have to worry.
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious (though it helps), but the fact that no real writers ever lay down anything real in public-they work in solitude, they think hard, and their thoughts are rarely nice or 'friendly.'
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...when General Eisenhower defined an intellectual as 'a man who takes more words than is necessary to tell more than he knows', he was speaking not as a Republican but as an American.
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Two of the guys that were honorary Vampires - Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix - had already died at 27. And they were certainly archangels in our group.
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I like people who would rather something be discovered than shoved in your face.
