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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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Amy Sedaris
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: March 29
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I listen. I like to give advice. Mostly, Ill just try to listen to my friends, and theyll say the same thing over and over again.
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I'm more of a clown, a tragic clown. Yeah. I just like humor to come out of characters.
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I don't really consider myself to be a comedian. I mean, it's not like I'm sitting around writing jokes or anything. I just like dressing up and pretending to be other people.
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I'm always more attracted to the unattractive.
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I like to entertain in all aspects. When you're with somebody and you're out, you want to be entertained.
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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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Sometimes it's just enough for me to have the idea. I don't need to see it through to the end. When it actually happens, I'm always disappointed because it's never like what I imagined in my head. When an idea becomes a reality, then it's a job. I'd rather just think about it.
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Don't answer the door in a wedding dress and veil, he might not think you're joking.
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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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My little brother Paul. He owns his own floor sanding business called Silly P Hardwood Floors and hes really good.
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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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We're all used to seeing pretty people. I want to see real people.
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When I'm by myself, I never play music. I have a lot of it, for a girl, but I don't listen to it a lot. I hate picking music out, I'm not good at it.
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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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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 like working with the public, I like working with food, and I like making cash.
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It's natural for humans to suppress urges, for when our desires are left unchecked they lead to broken relationships, prison time, and forest fires.
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I love old cookbooks. I just got such a kick out of them, how the color would be way off or fake looking. The cook books now look so much like magazines, you'll never make food that looks like that. I'd rather see it the ugly way than they way they do it now.
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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'm not a first-place person.
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