Amy Sedaris Quotes
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I'm not a first-place person.
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My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea market.
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I like to decide the night before Thanksgiving that I'm gonna do it, and I'll see what riff raff is around. Then I get that last-minute surge of energy. But if I had two weeks to plan, sometimes I wish I wasn't doing it. But very seldom does that happen.
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I like to make things, but I looked at old craft books on weaving or mosaics or whatever, I'm like, 'I don't really know anything about that stuff.'
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Don't make anybody a homemade gift. Unless you're really good, or it's going to be really practical. If it's a little thing you think is cute 'cause you made it, just forget it.
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I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd get your supplies, and then you'd use your imagination.
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I live in the moment.
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I like to just make things... If I have the TV on, I'm not just going to sit there. I want to do something with my hands; I've always got a project. Or I get a small group of people over, and I say, 'Let's make these things today.'
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I can't imagine going to an all-girls school. I went to a public school.
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I have a couple freeloader friends, but it's okay. I know they're gonna come in with their arms flying in the air empty-handed.
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I never really take shortcuts. I was always one of those people who, instead of cutting across someone's yard on the way home from school, I would go to the end of the block and turn.
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My kitchen's pink, like skin-tone pink, and I lowered my spice rack so it's eye level - it's true! - and my phone, so I can reach it when I fall, it's right there.
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Books are challenging and inspirational to me.
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Usually I'm the one asking somebody to do something because I don't know how to finish it. I'm like, 'Do this for me' because I'm just resistant to learning.
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I love cop shows and crime books and thrillers, and before I die I'm gonna play a cop.
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David and Dad didn't get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn't going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they're like best friends.
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I really don't like going out. I don't like restaurants because I don't like the idea of someone, a waitress, being responsible for my evening. I like seconds, and more, and lots of conversation, and I've always hated the idea that in a restaurant an evening just ends. I find that incredibly depressing.
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You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air.
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More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They don't like to see an ugly lady.
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I like to play unattractive people who think they're pretty. You can do what you want, but I prefer to look interesting.
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Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great.
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I always knew I didn't want kids, and I didn't want to get married.
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My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.
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I'd just much rather see an ugly person take the trash out than see somebody really pretty taking the trash out.