Amy Sedaris Quotes
I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I really love the '90s. I love the music from then for sure, and to go back to New York then would be a really wonderful thing.
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper.
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A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.
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There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told me that they resent a little bit that I do speak. But, you know, I have to be myself. I have to do what I'm comfortable doing.
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Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.
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I guess I'm quite practical. Or at least like to think I am.
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Fabo is a real rock star, but people look over it, so I'll try to bring it to the light if I can.
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What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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The sword was odd. The Arab Movement was one: Feisal another (his name means a flashing sword): then there is the excluded notion, Garden of Eden touch: and the division meaning, like the sword in the bed of mixed sleeping, from the Morte d'Arthur. I don't know which was in your mind, but they all came to me - and the sword also means clean-ness, and death.
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I thought to myself, Join the army. It's free. So I figured while I'm here I'll lose a few pounds.
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The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.
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I can do whatever I want. They will tell me if what I am doing is stupid or a total waste of time. I may tell them that they are wrong, and we will come to an agreement.
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I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.
