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“Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken.”
-- Amy Poehler

#Love #Heart #People
“It's interesting that people always want to ask me and a lot of working mothers, how do you do it? And it's like well, just like everybody else. It proves it's a bad question.”
-- Amy Poehler

#Mother #People #Interesting
“Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.”
-- Amy Poehler

#Thinking #Experience #Lessons
“It's very hard to watch comedy for me, when I'm doing a comedy show, because I either watch a show and I love it, and I'm jealous, or I watch a show and I see all the problems with it, and I'm angry that I watched it.”
-- Amy Poehler

#Jealous #Watches #Comedy
“There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do.”
-- Amy Poehler

#Hilarious #Silly #Caring
“Sometimes you have to kind of keep proving that you're improvising. That's the game, or the goal, of long-form TV improv, is that you have to kind of keep reminding and showing people that you're improvising, because they won't believe you really.”
-- Amy Poehler

#Believe #Games #Long
“Great people do things before they're ready. They do things before they know they can do it. Doing what you're afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that - that is what life is. You might be really good. You might find out something about yourself that's really special and if you're not good, who cares? You tried something. Now you know something about yourself.”
-- Amy Poehler

#Hard Times #People #Risk
“If you're a good improviser, you improvise well enough that people think that you're doing a sketch.”
-- Amy Poehler

#Thinking #People #Enough
“You never know what's around the corner unless you peek. Hold someone's hand while you do it. You will feel less scared.”
-- Amy Poehler

#Hands #Scared #Feels
“I think chemistry is about not acting, but reacting, and not talking, but listening.”
-- Amy Poehler

#Thinking #Talking #Listening
“Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used.”
-- Amy Poehler

#Inspirational #Graduation #Heart
“I hope and assume that every good comedy writer, no matter the age, has a moment where they discover how great Cheers is.”
-- Amy Poehler

#Cheer #Age #Matter
“I want to be around people that do things. I don't want to be around people anymore that judge or talk about what people do. I want to be around people who dream and support and do things.”
-- Amy Poehler

#New Year #Dream #Judging
“We [with Les Charles] started talking about hotel stories, and we found that a lot of the action was happening in the hotel bar. We actually thought of that while we were in a bar: "Why would anyone ever leave here?"”
-- Amy Poehler

#Talking #Bars #Stories
“The earlier you learn that you should focus on what you have, and not obsess about what you don't have, the happier you will be.”
-- Amy Poehler

#Positivity #Focus #Should
“The desire to work with Burrows-Charles was really to change NBC's identity, to say, "We want to be in the sophisticated-adult-comedy business."”
-- Amy Poehler

#Nbc #Desire #Identity
“Always remember your kid's name. Always remember where you put your kid. Don't let your kid drive until their feet can reach the pedals. Use the right size diapers... for yourself. And, when in doubt, make funny faces.”
-- Amy Poehler

#Funny #Kids #Feet
“I get a bit nervous because I just want the show to go well. I think you always have to be a little bit nervous, or else you're a little checked-out, and that's maybe the time when you're not doing your best stuff, because you're kind of just checked-out and falling back on stuff.”
-- Amy Poehler

#Fall #Thinking #Want
“Other people are not medicine.”
-- Amy Poehler

#Medicine #People
“We may all host ourselves to death, and if we're all dead who will host our funerals?”
-- Amy Poehler

#Funeral #May #Host
“As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people's ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.”
-- Amy Poehler

#Inspirational #Change #Ideas
“Being snubbed is not always a bad thing at awards shows because you end up getting a lot of people coming up to you and telling you how great you are.”
-- Amy Poehler

#Awards #People #Ends
“I love saying 'yes' and I love saying 'please.' Saying 'yes' doesn't mean I don't know how to say no, and saying 'please' doesn't mean I am waiting for permission. 'Yes please' sounds powerful and concise. It's a response and a request. It is not about being a good girl; it is about being a real woman.”
-- Amy Poehler

#Girl #Powerful #Real
“Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about.”
-- Amy Poehler

#Sexy #Talking #Symmetry
“In conclusion, I invite the media to all grow a pair. And if you can't, I will lend you mine.”
-- Amy Poehler

#Media #Heartless #Pairs
“Great people do things before theyâ€™re ready. They do things before they know they can do it. And by doing it, theyâ€™re proven right.”
-- Amy Poehler

#People #Great People #Ready
“Well people love to go dirty and stuff like that. It's funny, because even really dirty things can kind of inspire, but all things inspire really dirty improv and monologues. So then really dirty things can inspire the exact opposite. It's kind of a crapshoot.”
-- Amy Poehler

#Dirty #Opposites #People
“Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life, the better.”
-- Amy Poehler

#Hilarious #Feel Good #Kicks
“I'd like to think that I don't have a stock character that I go to. I'm lucky in that when you get to initiate your own scene, you get to play whoever you want. That's really kind of cool, but all my characters are short. I look on the videotape, and I thought they were taller, but they're all 5'2".”
-- Amy Poehler

#Character #Thinking #Play
“No one looks stupid when they're having fun.”
-- Amy Poehler

#Fun #Hate #Stupid

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