Amy Sedaris Quotes
When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yourself.' It's like chocolate-chip cookies. People buy the cookie-dough roll and slice it, and then they lay it on a cookie sheet. That's not making chocolate-chip cookies.
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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Age for me is just a number.
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This gold medal, to me, is a very good outcome from the many years I've spent on my professional career.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
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The acting came about because of a girl. I was 19 and met a girl who wanted to go to the premiere drama school in Australia, the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, where Mel Gibson, Cate Blanchett and many others went. She had an audition, and I went with her for moral support - to cheer her on. I did an audition my way, and it kept going.
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Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.
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Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
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In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.
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To do what you wanna do, to leave a mark - in a way that you think is important and lasting - that's a life well-lived.
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A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority.
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Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.
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It can be more productive to help people learn to be 'right' than prove they were 'wrong.'
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When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yourself.' It's like chocolate-chip cookies. People buy the cookie-dough roll and slice it, and then they lay it on a cookie sheet. That's not making chocolate-chip cookies.
