Amy Sedaris Quotes

I always knew I didn't want kids, and I didn't want to get married.

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• I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • School
  • High
  • Want

• I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Long
  • Thought
  • Wrong

• One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Reason
  • Stories
  • Lives

• And when people give me their word, I listen to them.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • People
  • Me
  • Word

• Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Money
  • Fighting
  • Measure

• I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Genuine

• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Changing

• I thought of Jeff Bridges in 'Hell or High Water' and Ben Foster, and I kept trying very hard not to, because you're terrified you're going to write this thing that then feeds specifically to this one person that then won't do it.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Trying
  • High
  • Water

• If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Want
  • Way
  • New

• I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Means
  • Ambitious
  • Take Care

• No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Think
  • Appreciation
  • Him

• Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • People
  • Responsibility
  • Honor

• In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers people from all ethnic and faith backgrounds.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • People
  • Faith
  • Identity

• If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Believe
  • Single

• When police or security personnel work in schools, they should follow the community policing model that integrates officers into school life, not just involve them when trouble arises.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Life
  • Work
  • School

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • More
  • Now
  • Almost

• There are a lot of new opportunities that are poking their head up in my future. I've been very fortunate that way, but for right now, what I like is what I'm doing.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Up
  • Future
  • Doing

• There is a danger of Scottish politics being between two sets of dinosaurs... the Nationalists who can't accept they were rejected by the people, and some colleagues at Westminster who think nothing has changed.

  

  Johann Lamont
  • People

• I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.

  

  Hedy Lamarr
  • Taken
  • Wise
  • Granted

• Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide out the side in slow motion like a John Woo movie.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Action

• I admire my mother. She raised four kids and worked and had no help.

  

  Jane Leeves
  • She
  • Kids
  • Help

• Rich white people show up in a poor country to pursue their leisure-time fun, get served by black and brown people, and live in relative - or absolute - comfort. In the water, that situation can get turned on its head, though. Local kids learn to surf, know the breaks, and take most or all of the best waves, fuming turistas be damned.

  

  William Finnegan
  • People
  • Country
  • Kids

• I always knew I didn't want kids, and I didn't want to get married.

  

  Amy Sedaris
  • Kids