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Amy Poehler Quotes

When I had a job catering, I catered a wedding for the Smashing Pumpkins bassist in Indiana. And I served Billy Corgan shrimp off a tray.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: September 16, 1971

Topics

Job Wedding Catering Shrimp Off Had

My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up.

Jennifer Garner

Education Parents Me Growing Up Way

When I was starting out, I didn't know what the hell I was doing and my person who was helping me out, I didn't even have an agent, got me five or six big auditions for leads in movies in 1986 that I had no business auditioning for. I think I ran out of three of them before I'd even finished.

Business Me Think Hell Doing Person

Money is like poetry because both involve learning to communicate in a compressed language that packs a lot of meaning and consequence into the minimum semantic space.

John Lanchester

Learning Money Poetry Space Language

I like the facts. I find them interesting.

Facts Interesting Find Like Them

My father worked all the time.

Michael Bloomberg

Father Time Worked

In order to become a master, you need to emulate. If you're going to be as big as Warhol has become in art, then you have to have younger generations who are exploring your work and trying to understand it like a language.

Work Art Language Trying You Become

I call him 'Daddy Coach.' He's taught me everything that he's known so I'm able to do what I'm able to do.

Michelle Carter

Me Him Coach Everything Call Daddy

We are such a product of our upbringing and environment.

Environment Product Our Upbringing

There's that rule: Don't show any of the other cameras. Why? Do you think the viewer doesn't think we filmed this?

Think You Why Rule Show Other

You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.

Diahann Carroll

Learning Yourself You Distance Know

I've directed a couple of times in the theater, but I wouldn't make a habit of it because it's too consuming.

Habit Because Make Theater Too

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

Bruno Bettelheim

Best Authority Self-Respect Obedience

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