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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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I always knew I didn't want kids, and I didn't want to get married.
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I’ve named everything that I’ve ever owned. Real or inanimate, I have to give it a first and last name. Everything in my apartment comes alive at night.
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I like to be around entertaining people. Even if they're bored, and you're in a convalescent home, there's something entertaining about that, in a way.
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But I love how people who are musical, they know how to dress.
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I really don't like going out. I don't like restaurants because I don't like the idea of someone, a waitress, being responsible for my evening. I like seconds, and more, and lots of conversation, and I've always hated the idea that in a restaurant an evening just ends. I find that incredibly depressing.
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Most people think witches are a coven of lesbians dancing naked in the forest celebrating the semen stolen from imprisoned hypnotized males, which they then use to inseminate one another using turkey basters in order to create a legion of demon babies. Well, that's only part of it. We are also active in community outreach programs.
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I'm not very good with drink recipes. If I'm entertaining, I like to come up with a house drink for the evening, one thing I'll make for the whole evening of the whole month.
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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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Don't associate me with comedy. And please don't say actress. I would never call myself any of those things. I hate it when people call me that.
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My characters always like themselves.
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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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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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Before you can give of yourself to others you must know what of yourself you have to give. Every person is special. In all the land there is only one you, possibly two, but seldom more than sixteen.
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I'm not a first-place person.
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I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.
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You just can't enjoy any of the movie when you're in it.
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I am an aging Girl Scout.
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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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I wouldn't call myself a shut-in. I have the ability to leave my home I just choose not to. But because I'm such a homebody, it's important to be surrounded by things I love.
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That's how all theater should be done - you only have one chance to see it and then it's gone. One night only.
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