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Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it.

Amy Poehler

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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
Writer
Newton
Massachusetts
Amy Meredith Poehler
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Ready
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If you're a good improviser, you improvise well enough that people think that you're doing a sketch.
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I really do believe that anything in life - any obstacle or challenge - can be made better with humor.
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Ignore what other people think. Most people aren’t even paying attention to you.
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Don't think. Get out of your head. Stop planning and just go.
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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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What I like about all these giant superhero movies is that they speak to the issues that I'm dealing with - working mother and time management and how to be an interesting, sexual, curious woman in your 40s.
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Make no a complete sentence.
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People who read are people who dream, and we connect through the stories we live and tell and read.
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It doesn't matter how much you get you are left wanting more.
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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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Opening your heart and being courageous and telling people that you care about them or like them or that you think they're special only makes you a better, bigger, kinder, softer, more loving person, and only attracts more love into your life.
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I want to be around people who dream and support and do things.
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If the goal is doing good stuff and working with your friends ... if you’re doing that then you’re succeeding.
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Always remember your kid's name.
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I used to say that I wanted to make great art with people I love. Now I have an addendum to that goal: to get things on the air.
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Do work that you are proud of with your talented friends.
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I've always dreamed of growing up to be Amy Poehler.
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I think if you can dance and be free and not embarrassed, you can rule the world.
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