Amy Sherman-Palladino Quotes
You simply cannot do a sitcom by committee. It will not work. You've got to have one or two clean, creative voices in charge, and there's got to be some faith by the studio and network in those people to make the right choices.
Quotes to Explore
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I am a very reclusive, private person.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.
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I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
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I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.
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There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.
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I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.
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People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.
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If a great outfit gets you one step closer to feeling good about yourself, then it's worth every penny.
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At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.
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Would I have watched another season of 'Breaking Bad'? Of course. Would I have watched another two seasons of 'Breaking Bad'? Of course. The fact that I would easily have watched much, much more than I got made the ending so much more poignant and stronger and better for me.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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I think of workshopping as a way to read your own work through the eyes of others - a scene that you write gets refracted by those around you, and suddenly you have several different readings of it, each with a different momentum for how it might be retooled or reshaped.
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Auditions are just torture. I'm trying to get better at it. It's a very difficult thing to do. You go into a tiny room with a camera with somebody who is doing this with 100 other people, and they're so bored, and then you have to be like, 'Hey! I'm gonna show you what I got!'
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I'm doing like a No. 2 or a No. 1 on my head now because I just love how easy it is. I just shave my head and go out.
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Acting is a job you can learn a lot in. You get to play lots of different characters with different professions and different backgrounds; they come from different places than you do, so it's really fun when you're immersing yourself in that world of that person to learn about how other people's lives are.
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The bigger goal of giving all parents more choices is one that will have to be discussed and undoubtedly roundly debated, but we are going to have to continue to build the case. The momentum is there on the state level in many states. That's where the energy needs to be harnessed in a new way.
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You simply cannot do a sitcom by committee. It will not work. You've got to have one or two clean, creative voices in charge, and there's got to be some faith by the studio and network in those people to make the right choices.
