Amy Sedaris Quotes
I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive.
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I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
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You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
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Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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New mobile-payment-based models are, in some ways, more secure. Because in a model like Circle's, for example, we never transmit your personal information or your financial credentials to the people you're paying.
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Under the common law, one of the more controversial rules is the 'no duty to rescue rule' that says that, if you were not responsible for placing someone in danger or risk, you have no obligation to help them, even when it would cost little to save their life.
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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We should not allow wealthy people, including corporate criminals, to hide their assets and avoid paying their bills.
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People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?
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I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive.
