Amy Sedaris Quotes

They just expected it to you know... Paul, Steve and I could have hired our own publicist, if we wanted to, but I kind of liked the way it was more of a cult thing and those that liked it, liked it, you know what I mean?

Amy Sedaris

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• I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Women
  • America
  • Visionary

• Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Universe
  • Painting
  • Patterns

• I was the 'no one understands me' teenager. But I think truly I've realized now that I didn't understand a thing myself. So I just had some livin' to do.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Think
  • Me
  • Myself

• I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Nature
  • Career
  • Adversity

• Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Opportunity
  • Confused

• I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Life
  • Good
  • Trying

• Well, love motivates me in everything I do.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Love
  • Me
  • Motivates

• I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Feel

• What I'm after is something different than supplying people with the idea that I'm writing an important play.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving you're putting on a show!

  

  Ted Allen
  • You
  • Waiting
  • Thanksgiving

• We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Good
  • Community
  • Path

• I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Story
  • Library
  • Writer

• I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life.

  

  Vanessa Minnillo
  • Life
  • Good
  • School

• I was quietly rebellious. My parents thought I was very good but secretly I did things like saying I was staying in one place and going somewhere else instead. My older sister was openly rebellious and would tell my parents where to go, but I never did that.

  

  Frances O'Connor
  • Good
  • Parents
  • Sister

• Whenever I've been in Scotland I've had such amazing support, and the love from Scottish fans has always been great.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Great
  • Support
  • Amazing

• Our society loves raw character; we love raw women. We don't love our mother because she is hot and sexy: we love our mother because she is our mother. We love our granny because she is our granny. We value her. We don't remember anyone's face from our childhood; we love our granny's face.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Women
  • Character
  • Society

• He would milk the white man....The white man had more money than sense.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Money

• If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface; of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.

  

  Andy Warhol

• I love insults, devastating takedowns, things that could be described by Twitter hacks as 'shots fired,' and funny ad hominem attacks.

  

  Alex Pareene
  • Funny

• I'm interested in the gene bank of how Americans have built in different regions in different times.

  

  Jaquelin T. Robertson
  • Different

• Usually, if I hear songs, I record it on a Voice Memo first. I have to perfect it. I'm a big fan of delivery, and I want to make sure you're saying it right. I'm like, 'This has to be perfect when I do this.'

  

  O. T. Genasis
  • Perfect

• My mother's the youngest of 10 children too, so we have sort of a special bond in that we know what that feels like. It's a strange spot to be in.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Bond

• It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor. You start believing that you're poor because you're stupid and ugly. And then you start believing that you're stupid and ugly because you're Indian. And because you're Indian you start believing you're destined to be poor. It's an ugly circle and there's nothing you can do about it.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Believe
  • Feels
  • Stupid

• They just expected it to you know... Paul, Steve and I could have hired our own publicist, if we wanted to, but I kind of liked the way it was more of a cult thing and those that liked it, liked it, you know what I mean?

  

  Amy Sedaris