Amy Sedaris Quotes
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.
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I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.
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Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.
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Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have to take the garbage out at night on Wednesdays. I lived out in the country. I'd take the garbage out, and I used to pretend that I was the only person in the whole world, except for one other person, and he was looking for me.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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Well, everybody is trying to make this a money thing. If you send me to another team, let's see what I ask for. I won't ask for nothing. I'll play under the same terms. So it is not Gary wants more money. Gary has money. What else do I need?
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If I'm preparing for something and I've got a huge day the next day, I have to get into character the night before to assess the scene. I can't assess a scene unless I'm in character, if that makes sense.
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I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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I grew up in a joint family of 60 people with one kitchen. So I am a firm believer in the family concept.
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The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it.
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A mitzvah that costs money is worth more than one that costs nothing.
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My chief identity, to my mind, was not 'writer' but 'college dropout.'
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Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to demanding from a composer that he or she write only string quartets or piano sonatas.
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A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.
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If I'm creating something for myself, then I want to have fun.
