Amy Sedaris Quotes
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-'80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
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I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.
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It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.
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I never want to forget that I'm doing an impossible thing. How rare is it that you get to be part of something people love? It's really special. It's a very out-of-body experience to be a part of something so huge.
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In fact, I learned on the Bill Maher show that I can survive the audience booing at me, the guests hating me, Sarah Silverman mocking me, that I can survive. That's a lesson right there for people on the right.
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I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point of view from which these tales are told: the moral makeup of the teller.
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When I played in a band, people just stand there and look at you and criticize what they didn't like. But if you watch a D.J. show, people go crazy from beginning to end. Say what you want against D.J.'s, but you can't deny that the energy level in the audience is for the most part far above what rock bands have.
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People that know me know that I cook. I cook every night.
