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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Those new disciplines are neuroscience, the study of how the brain supports mental processes; developmental psychopathology, the study of the impact of adverse experiences on the development of mind and brain; and interpersonal neurobiology, the study of how our behavior influences the emotions, biology, and mind-sets of those around us.
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I've enjoyed doing Wolf Blitzer's program, and I even enjoyed having a heated debate with Bill O'Reilly. I will do it any time.
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My drawing skills probably froze around when I was 18... Now I'm more interested in the story, how the drawings, the layout can help express the stories and communicate them.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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Keep your virginity for as long as you can, until it starts to feel weird to you. Then just get it over with.
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I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.
