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Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.

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Amy Poehler
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 16
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Amy Meredith Poehler
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Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortablene ss directly correlates to your happiness and general well-being. See what I just did there? I saved you thousands of dollars on self-help books. If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet, you will be happier.
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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?'
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I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.
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I am interested in people who swim in the deep end. I want to have conversations about real things with people who have experienced real things. I'm tired of talking about movies and gossiping about friends. Life is crunchy and complicated and all the more delicious.
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Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An apology is a glorious release.
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Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing. Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken.
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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.
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If you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with without denigrating them or insulting them, then you may actually be heard.
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I think real life couples on screen are kind of deadly. For the most part, they're kind of deadly. You'd be surprised. Unless they're falling in love onscreen for the first time, you don't have quite the same energy for some reason.
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Prince Harry this week toured the Jersey Shore with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. It was the first meeting between the Prince, of the House of Windsor, and the Governor, of the House of Pancake.
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When youre a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend its really boring, but its not. Its enriching and fulfilling, and an amazing experience. And then when youre a working mother you have to pretend that you feel guilty all day long.
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Both conservatives and liberals watch 'Parks and Recreation,' and they each think the show is for them, which is really cool. 'SNL' was totally different. It was exciting because everyone was paying attention. Political humor works when people know what you're talking about.
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It doesn't matter how much you get you are left wanting more.
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Change is the only constant. Learn to surf your life instead of planting your feet.
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You learn early as an actor that creating your own material is the only way to have any control.
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Dreams never wear you down.
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The only way we will survive is by being kind. The only way we can get by in this world is through the help we receive from others. No one can do it alone, no matter how great the machines are.
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The minute anyone makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it.
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The great thing about taking big chances when you're younger is you have less to lose, and you don't know as much. So you take big swings.
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I want to be around people who dream and support and do things.
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