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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One is never ready for success. It consecrates and looses you at the same time.
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The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in Gaelic speak in English, they get the same rhythm.
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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.
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I think since I'm not particularly well-known as myself, it's funny all the different perceptions people have of me. Like, if someone's only seen me in 'Death Proof,' they think I'm sort of a ditzy girl who says stupid things and wears revealing outfits all the time.
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Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.
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I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.
