Amy Sedaris Quotes

I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive.

Amy Sedaris

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PeopleThinkChooseI CanPretend

Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?

Steven Pinker

MindPoliticalQuestionsDownMoral

With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois and Lee Krasner, are only fully embraced very late in their career.

Siri Hustvedt

WomenGreatArtMenCareerLate

You know what, I don't really watch a lot of cooking shows, but what's great about them is that it inspires a lot of the younger generation so, you know, with cooking shows and reality shows and the social media, I think it really makes our industry a hotter industry.

Roy Yamaguchi

GreatCookingSocial MediaThinkYou

In the music business, to survive for so long, you have to be able to cut off from your emotions sometimes. And being a father, you're faced with that situation. I know that my father was, with me. I understand why he had to be distant, because to rip yourself away, time after time, is almost more devastating.

Rufus Wainwright

FatherBusinessMusicTimeYourself

In a weird way, when I was looking back, I didn't know I was going to be a director until I was.

Mike Nichols

Looking BackLookingWeirdBackKnow

When I met my wife, I was a working comic, so the first week we went out, she saw me perform, and it was very clear what I do.

Mike Birbiglia

WifeMeWeekSheFirstOut

Before the whole Disney realm had undergone this huge revamping, as a kid, I always saw myself doing these dramatic indie parts. And then I fell in love with doing comedy and doing kid shows and really working for kids.

Debby Ryan

LoveMyselfComedyDoingKidAlways

I'm still excited at being at a microphone and talking to listeners. I love that. It's the most basic element of what I do and I still enjoy it very much.

Bob Edwards

LoveTalkingEnjoyExcitedBeing

For me, diverse beauty is an affirmation of every single person in his or her own skin.

Philomena Kwao

BeautyMePersonSkinAffirmation

My parents and grandparents listened to bacheta heavy, the true bachata from back in the day - Juan Luis Guerra, Anthony Santos. I liked the genre, but I remember thinking, 'OK, enough of this.' I would sing Usher's 'U Remind Me' to the girls in school.

Prince Royce

DaySchoolParentsMeThinkingBack

But I would defy anyone to go back over the years and tell me anyone whose career I've ruined, anyone whom I've driven out of the service, anyone I've fired from a job.

Norman Schwarzkopf

ServiceJobMeBackCareerGo

Once a Bond fan, always a Bond fan.

Richard Kiel

BondAlwaysFanOnce

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