Amy Poehler Quotes

Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up. It's best when it's just left alone. It doesn't translate always on TV. It's best live.

Amy Poehler

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The things that interest me are less to do with perhaps finding myself and more to do with surviving and mercy and forgiveness.

John Cameron Mitchell

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I keep a diary because I love this writer, David Sedaris, and he writes a lot about his diary, and he inspired me to keep one.

Maya Hawke

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All the things that you would have thought would have made me a professional A1 criminal... wrong. I decided that was too lazy and easy, and because of the way British society is, quite frankly you were denied an education, so I got one of my own.

John Lydon

EducationMeSocietyThoughtYou

My mom, the fabulous Bertie Kinsey, is an amazing seamstress. She quilts and sews and is so crafty. We call her the Southern Martha Stewart!

Angela Kinsey

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I made a statement all my own.

Jeff Buckley

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The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive probably reflects the women I've known in my life.

Sidney Sheldon

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I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.

Louis Sachar

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I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

Lord Byron

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I try to take the foundations of what music is and add some type of twist to it.

Jay IDK

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To call New York's traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.

Dick Cavett

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Make sure your work is never results-oriented. The result is a byproduct of the work, in a way.

Constance Wu

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Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.

Prince

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