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Amy Poehler Quotes

I'd say any good set or any comedy that I've worked on, that's worked, has been comedians pitching ideas back and forth to each other. A lot of like, 'What if you say this? What about this?'

Amy Poehler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good Ideas Comedy You Back Say

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

Jim Rohn

Value You Bring Paid Get Hour

I can't allow myself to censor myself.

John Grant

Myself Allow Censor

You ask any moviemaker what their favorite movie experience was, and they'll say it was one of the first ones, where everyone had to pitch in and do everything together, and you had to struggle.

Robert Rodriguez

Experience Struggle Together You Say

If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience. Reality is no less precious if it presents itself to someone else. All are discoverers, and if we disenfranchise any, all suffer.

John Polanyi

Experience People Reality Someone

My dad left when I was young. I didn't have a dad. I'm part of that divorced generation and didn't want to do that to my kids, so I took a year off and became a full-time dad, changed diapers and all that while my wife worked.

Tom King

Wife Generation Year Young Want Off

I really liked the snake that breaks out of the cage in the beginning of the movie. I saw it in real life, and it was really cool. Really big and fat. The owls are cool as well, but you can't really pet them.

Tom Felton

Life Pet Beginning Cool Snake Fat

There's definitely a wave of Brits doing great work on American television, and I wouldn't mind being one of them!

Rob James-Collier

Work Great Mind American Wave Doing

The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?

Joseph Murray

Me Slow Rejection Person Skin Own

I don't give up. I'm definitely meant to be an entrepreneur.

Cheryl Yeoh

Entrepreneur Meant To Be Up Give

When we meet a work of art, there's something about that encounter that isn't fixed in time, but rather, it unfixes time: the shaft opens. The past and present exist in the same moment, and we know, as beings, that we are connected. All the people who lived before us, all who will come after us, are connected in this moment.

Ali Smith

Work Time Art Moment Past People

The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's in jazz, it's in country music, it's in gospel.

Wynton Marsalis

Music American Country New Jazz

'Atlantic City' is very good.

Peter Capaldi

Good City Very Atlantic