Amy Sedaris Quotes
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Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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Year 2008 wiped out $19.2 trillion in US income... What if the money was spent on the Midwest of the United States?
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I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.
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In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State.
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
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You can go crazy and play solos in the right place, and that's great because it can intensify and bring an emotional lift. But the thing is you don't want to get in the way of the song.
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We know that if we can prevent kids from trying drugs in their teenage years, we dramatically reduce the likelihood that they will go on to have problems later in life.
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Go forward with new zeal and determination, and through your example shine the light of the gospel in this troubled world.
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Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.
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When we reject unemployment as an economic instrument — as we do — and when we reject also superficial remedies, as socialists must, then we must ask ourselves unflinchingly what is the cause of high unemployment. Quite simply and unequivocally, it is caused by paying ourselves more than the value of what we produce. There are no scapegoats.
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I stayed in New York City for the first time, I'd always wanted to do that.
