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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Anybody can act good to be around when they are doing really well.
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It's a dirty little secret that I'm pretty self-conscious about coloring my own work. I just see so many people who love color more than me that I get freaked out every time I hit Photoshop. Black and white? I know exactly what to do, but color offers a million solutions to problems I don't even know exist.
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I do tend to find when you're playing characters, often - just for the time you're playing them - there are sides of your personality that get stronger because you draw on them more.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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It was my job to interest them in everything that was happening, to make the arrival of the Daily Express each morning an event, to show them the world outside Bolton and Bacup, to give them courage and confidence to overcome the drabness of their lives.
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I stayed in New York City for the first time, I'd always wanted to do that.
