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I have seen their hard work pay off and witnessed, their expansion and full parking lots.


Amy Pietsch

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AMY SEDARIS But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty.
AMY SEDARIS My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.
AMY SEDARIS When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yoursel...
AMY SEDARIS Books are challenging and inspirational to me.
AMY SEDARIS I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop.
AMY SEDARIS I love theatrical props: a cup filled with solid fake tea, say, or a collection of fake food, includ...
AMY SEDARIS I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd ge...
AMY SEDARIS I like to decide the night before Thanksgiving that I'm gonna do it, and I'll see what riff ...
AMY SEDARIS We're all used to seeing pretty people. I want to see real people.
AMY SEDARIS My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea m...
AMY SEDARIS I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.
AMY SEDARIS I got this second chance at life, and I live it.
AMY PURDY Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and the...
AMY BLOOM People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Na...
AMY BLOOM I love cooking during Christmas, all smells like the hot apple cider, the hot spiced wine.
AMY SMART I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are r...
AMY POEHLER I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's ...
AMY WALDMAN And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant...
AMY TAN