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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If you look at your companies, and half of your staff are not female, and a decent percentage of them are not people of color, then you are part of the problem because you need people working for you and you need people in positions of leadership who can exercise their bias and who can exercise their perspective.
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I'm trying to be the messenger for the people that pay attention to me. And those people I want to help inspire because a lot of people maybe think it's - they're too cool for school. That's all I can ever do.
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In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
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People in the know say 'The Giver' was the first young adult dystopian novel.
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D-Day represents the greatest achievement of the american people and system in the 20th century. It was the pivot point of the 20th century. It was the day on which the decision was made as to who was going to rule in this world in the second half of the 20th century. Is it going to be Nazism, is it going to be communism, or are the democracies going to prevail?
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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.
