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Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.

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Amy Poehler
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 16
Actress
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Television Director
Television Producer
Voice Actor
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Amy Meredith Poehler
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We have to agree beforehand to divide the funniest lines between us. But Tina [Fey] is so brilliant that I just love every moment working with her and also just hanging out together as friends.
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When I had a job catering, I catered a wedding for the Smashing Pumpkins bassist in Indiana. And I served Billy Corgan shrimp off a tray.
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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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You have to be where you are to get where you need to go.
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New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said that New Orleans, when rebuilt, will be a chocolate city. And he will be the delicious nut in the center.
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Sometimes you need to know to quit while you're ahead or at least before things get much worse!
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I have to say I enjoy physical comedy and I've always loved to kind of take risks. I don't like worrying too much about how I look or how I come across, so that can sometimes... You know, I like to play those kinds of deluded but fun characters.
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I think if I have established anything in my book, it's that a key element of being my friend is being comfortable with my forced fun.
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Open-faced sandwiches take risks and live big and smile with all their teeth. These are the people I want to be around.
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I like hard work and I don’t like pretending things are perfect.
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When you feel scared, hold someone's hand and look into their eyes. And when you feel brave, do the same thing. You are all here because you are smart. And you are brave. And if you add kindness and the ability to change a tire, you almost make up the perfect person.
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I have these meetings with really powerful men and they ask me all the time, 'Where are your kids? Are your kids here?' It's such a weird question. Never in a million years do I ask guys where their kids are. It would be comparable to me going to a guy, 'Do you feel like you see your kids enough?'
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Girls have to fight against a lot of the same stuff we did growing up... peer pressure, exploitation, etc. But what worries me the most is this trend that caring about something isn't cool. That it's better to comment on something than to commit to it. That it's so much cooler to be unmotivated and indifferent.
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Masters of Sex is the degree I got from Boston College.
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Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken.
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I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, stern, Midwestern, warm-slash-passive aggressive, wonderful - every adjective I can think of, very cold.
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Great people do things before they're ready...You might find out something about yourself that's really special and if you're not good, who cares? You tried something.
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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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There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do.
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Everyone needs love, never hurt a living thing [and] don’t worry about the choices you make because everything will be fun because life is a closet filled with pool toys.
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