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Amy Sedaris
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: March 29
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Amy Louise Sedaris
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Sometimes, to keep things exciting, I decorate my house as if I owned a child. I'll toss a tiny pair of shoes in the hallway or lean small wooden crutches in what I refer to as 'the baby's room,' which is actually a tiny space where I make things. I continue to call it the baby's room because it confuses people and it's creepy.
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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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I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.
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I'm not a first-place person.
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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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If I know I have to memorize lines, I'm really gonna try to memorize lines. It's hard for me sometimes, because somebody wrote these words and you're trying really hard to get them the way they said it.
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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 like dramas and stuff. That's what I watch, but it seems weird that I'd be in it.
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I always want to look unattractive, it's more fun. I like playing opposites, people who aren't attractive who think they are pretty. That's always interesting to me.
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I wasn't a cliquey person, and I think that's because I came from a large family. I got along with everybody, and I usually got along with the people that people didn't like.
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My characters always like themselves.
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Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great.
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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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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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Accentuaute the positives - medicate the negatives.
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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 always find something to keep me busy.
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I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd get your supplies, and then you'd use your imagination.
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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 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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