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Usually, the best ideas come from other people's good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas.

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Amy Sedaris
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: March 29
Actor
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Endicott
New York
Amy Louise Sedaris
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We're all used to seeing pretty people. I want to see real people.
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I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's going to get edited. I think that comes from being in a large family, so you have to get your story in really quick or someone cuts you off.
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When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yourself.' It's like chocolate-chip cookies. People buy the cookie-dough roll and slice it, and then they lay it on a cookie sheet. That's not making chocolate-chip cookies.
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People always think I'm Amy Poehler, which never bothers me. I mean, Amy Poehler is great.
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although it has been said that idle hands are the devil's workshop, when it comes to teenagers, both idle and active hands are the devil's workshop.
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A lot of crafters, they're shut-ins.
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The moment someone says, 'Hey, everyone, listen to the words in this song,' your party is over.
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My kitchen's pink, like skin-tone pink, and I lowered my spice rack so it's eye level - it's true! - and my phone, so I can reach it when I fall, it's right there.
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Don't make anybody a homemade gift. Unless you're really good, or it's going to be really practical. If it's a little thing you think is cute 'cause you made it, just forget it.
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Imagination! My problem is that I have so many ideas, I never have enough time to use them all. Just the other day I thought up eleven things I could do with a flowerpot. Eleven! Three of those things didn't even involve plants.
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My little brother Paul. He owns his own floor sanding business called Silly P Hardwood Floors and hes really good.
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Accentuaute the positives - medicate the negatives.
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I always liked my teachers, and I was in a lot of after-school projects. I was a Girl Scout until my senior year, when I couldn't be a Girl Scout anymore. I was in clubs like Junior Achievement, and I ran track and field. My grades were good, but then toward 11th grade they were nothing. I always went to summer school.
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I need a costume to be convinced that I'm somebody else. Otherwise, it's just me. It's just Amy saying lines. I haven't really become somebody else. And what's the fun in that?
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I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive.
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I love depressing movies and depressing books.
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Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.
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My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice.
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I'm drawn to people who look different. I'm not exploiting. I'm not making fun of them. I'm drawn to them.
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If you see a shy person, ask them some questions like, 'Why are you so shy? Tell everyone, we're all listening.
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