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Only at the Golden Globes do the beautiful people of film rub shoulders with the rat-faced people in television.

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Amy Poehler
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 16
Actress
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
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Television Actor
Television Director
Television Producer
Voice Actor
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Newton
Massachusetts
Amy Meredith Poehler
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Always remember your kid's name.
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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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You can't stand around and wait to be asked to dance.
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I don’t really believe in cars, but I drive one every day and I love that it gets me places and makes life so much easier and faster and I don’t know what I would do without it.
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Any painful experience makes you see things differently. It also reminds you of the simple truths that we purposely forget every day or else we would never get out of bed.
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I used to get my hair dyed at a place called Big Hair. It cost $15. They just used straight bleach, so my hair was the color of white lined paper, and my eyebrows looked like they were done with a thick black marker.
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Doing what you're afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that- that's what life is.
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Ladies like improv stilts, and I think men like improv giant cocks. But one of the great things about improv is that you get to play some roles you'd never get to play otherwise, you know, like the old Italian pizza-maker who's passing on the business down to his son. You get to play it all when you improvise.
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I think chemistry is about not acting, but reacting, and not talking, but listening.
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