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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Gender-dominated environments are not good... particularly in the financial sector where there are too few women. In gender-dominated environments, men have a tendency to... show how hairy chested they are, compared with the man who's sitting next to them. I honestly think that there should never be too much testosterone in one room.
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I don’t have the passion anymore, and so remember, it’s better to burn out than to fade away.
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There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there.
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Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.
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People who watch a lot of Fox come away knowing a lot less about important world events.
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I stayed in New York City for the first time, I'd always wanted to do that.
