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Amy Sedaris Quotes

You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: March 29, 1961

Topics

Money Imagination Joy Think You Way

Growing up, I never felt like the pretty girl.

Girl Growing Up Growing Never Up

I used to like to see The Millionaires versus The Hulkamaniacs. That team versus team atmosphere where you have 10 guys or 8 guys, and it comes down to 3-on-1 - that got exciting for me.

Me Team You Down See Atmosphere

I mean, I'll say the filthiest things in the world, but when it comes down to it, I'm kind of a prude.

World Down Say Kind Mean Things

My parents were reasoned and deep thinkers. My dad is an intellectual and a literary man.

Man Parents Deep Intellectual Were

Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak.

Roberto Cavalli

Success Good Father I Am Strong

Americans generally associate boats with leisure. Vastly less prosperous, Egyptians associate them with nothing but labour. Rowing a boat is something a fisherman is forced to do to make a living; how could such an activity bring me - a woman no less - pleasure?

Rosemary Mahoney

Woman Me Boat Living Nothing Rowing

That's so important for children when they're growing up, to have a strong male role model.

Children Growing Up Strong Role Model

I think what good television does well is that it shows characters evolving.

Good Think Television Evolving Well

I'll be going to the granddaddy of the Los Angeles theaters.

Michael Ritchie

Los Angeles Going Granddaddy Los

And exciting buildings are fine periodically.

Minoru Yamasaki

Buildings Fine Exciting

My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience. I never know who's influencing me at any time.

Time Experience Creative Me Process

I used to paint landscapes without any people in them but now I paint people who happen to be in a particular place. They might be outside a pub, or on a beach or in a studio. They might have clothes on or they might not.

Beach People Clothes Place Now Used

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