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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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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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
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Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.
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My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
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I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel.
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I'm street smart. You can't con me. But that's just from living in New York. Now if a guy came from Mississippi somewhere, Ohio somewhere, to New York City for the first time, he don't have the street smarts. You can take him.
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I think the first villain that I ever played was on 'Stargate'. I was this superior being that would take over a human host and believe that he was the most superior being in the universe.
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I stayed in New York City for the first time, I'd always wanted to do that.
