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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
Actress
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Endicott
New York
Amy Louise Sedaris
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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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If you cannot come to the party, do not cancel at the last minute or give a message to a child to inform the host. And don't bother explaining why you can't attend because anything after 'because' is bullshit.
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Begin your story with a sentence that will immediately grab hold of your listener's ears like a surly nun in a Catholic school.
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Gift-wrap the framed artwork on your walls and rehang them - what's nicer than a wall of presents to look at?
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I love theatrical props: a cup filled with solid fake tea, say, or a collection of fake food, including a rubber turkey, which, during the holidays, I wrap in tinfoil so it appears to have just come out of the oven.
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Crafting is putting ideas into action and then holding them together with an inexpensive adhesive.
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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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I've always been drawn to people with problems. Not just physical problems, but mental problems too. Like depressed people or killers, all that stuff.
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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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I cried when I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. And then I laughed REALLY hard.
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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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On the off chance that you have children, don't clean up at all. As children, my brother and sister and I loved waking up early and playing cocktail party with the leftover debris
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I don't know my telephone number or anything like that, but when I do have to make a call, I just pull my body over to the side and squat. I don't want to be one of those people who are on their phone all the time.
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I've never played anyone who didn't like themselves. I don't care if they're unattractive, but it's important that they think of themselves as attractive. And I guess that's part of their charm.
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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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I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop.
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People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.
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They just expected it to you know... Paul, Steve and I could have hired our own publicist, if we wanted to, but I kind of liked the way it was more of a cult thing and those that liked it, liked it, you know what I mean?
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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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We're all used to seeing pretty people. I want to see real people.
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