Amy Poehler quote: "I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading."

I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine ...
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In a recent Valentine's Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says that - oh, who cares...
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However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, "I'm just c...
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I want to be around people that do things. I don’t want to be around people anymore that judge or ...
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When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. ...
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I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, st...
AMY POEHLER

Tina Fey and I have 15 things in development: 'Laverne and Shirley', 'Starsky and Hutch ...
AMY POEHLER

Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't tr...
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I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum, ...
AMY POEHLER

As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other peop...
AMY POEHLER

I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are r...
AMY POEHLER

Let me take a minute to say that I love bossy women. Some people hate the word, and I understand how...
AMY POEHLER

I think the idea of ensemble should really be re-enforced and that's staying with the same group of ...
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I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improv...
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We want to extend our adolescence as long as we can. I.O., Upright Citizens Brigade and 'SNL' have e...
AMY POEHLER

Everything looked like you could run around in it ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ you could catch...
AMY POEHLER

It is completely improvised. We have had no meetings backstage, we have not written anything, and ev...
AMY POEHLER

I.O. was kind of like comedy high school. Everybody knows each other, dated each other, performed to...
AMY POEHLER

We want to extend our adolescence as long as we can,
AMY POEHLER

You tell somebody you're an improviser and they think you're doing Random Acts of Comedy and it's ju...
AMY POEHLER

Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to g...
AMY POEHLER

There's something so romantic about being broke in New York. You gotta do it. You have to live t...
AMY POEHLER

Whenever I read stories of people doing huge pranks on set, all I think is, 'These people have t...
AMY POEHLER

When I had a job catering, I catered a wedding for the Smashing Pumpkins bassist in Indiana. And I s...
AMY POEHLER

I used to get my hair dyed at a place called Big Hair. It cost $15. They just used straight bleach, ...
AMY POEHLER

I've always dreamed of growing up to be Amy Poehler.
AMY POEHLER

Always remember your kid's name. Always remember where you put your kid. Don't let your kid ...
AMY POEHLER

I have to say I enjoy physical comedy and I've always loved to kind of take risks. I don't l...
AMY POEHLER

Everything looked like you could run around in it – you could catch a bus!
AMY POEHLER

Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever ...
AMY POEHLER

Everything looked like you could run around in it you could catch a bus!
AMY POEHLER

The earlier you learn that you should focus on what you have, and not obsess about what you don'...
AMY POEHLER

Too often we women try to tackle chaos that is not ours to fix.
AMY POEHLER

Fighting aging is like the War on Drugs. It’s expensive, does more harm than good, and has been pr...
AMY POEHLER

I know enough now to know I know nothing.
AMY POEHLER

Change is the only constant. Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomforta...
AMY POEHLER

I am introducing a new idea. Try to care less. Practice ambivalence. Learn to let go of wanting it.
AMY POEHLER

People are very bad and very good. A little love goes a long way.
AMY POEHLER

It’s easier to be brave when you’re not alone.
AMY POEHLER

I believe great people do things before they are ready.
AMY POEHLER

Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortableness directly correlates t...
AMY POEHLER

divorce is always good news because no good marriage has ever ended in divorce.
AMY POEHLER

Gavin de Becker talks about this in his wonderful book The Gift Of Fear. He talks about how the word...
AMY POEHLER

It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.
AMY POEHLER

Sometimes in my class I have people come in and do monologues inspired by people they know and I alw...
AMY POEHLER

I can party like a twenty-four-year-old but it takes me almost a week to recover.
AMY POEHLER

So what do I do? What do we do? How do we move forward when we are tired and afraid? What do we do w...
AMY POEHLER

PUDDING IS DELICIOUS.
AMY POEHLER

Bedtime is fraught with fear and disappointment. When it is just me alone with my restless body and ...
AMY POEHLER

I have told people that writing this book has been like brushing away dirt from a fossil. What a loa...
AMY POEHLER

Sometimes we whisper it quietly and other times we shout it out loud in front of a mirror. I hate ho...
AMY POEHLER

I hate Halloween. I hate dressing up. I hate - I wear wigs, makeup, costumes every day. Halloween is...
AMY POEHLER

So, if you're doing good longform with talented people than you can step out and you can be the ...
AMY POEHLER

When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero ...
AMY POEHLER

Both conservatives and liberals watch 'Parks and Recreation,' and they each think the show i...
AMY POEHLER

I'm going to do 'The Social Network Two: The Electric Boogaloo.' And I have a part in &#...
AMY POEHLER

Treat your career like a bad boyfriend. Here's the thing. Your career won't take care of you. It won...
AMY POEHLER

That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. Good for her! Not for me.
AMY POEHLER

That voice that talks badly to you is a demon voice. This very patient and determined demon shows up...
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You do it because the doing of it is the thing. The doing is the thing. The talkind and worrying and...
AMY POEHLER

Watching great people do what you love is a good way to start learning how to do it yourself.
AMY POEHLER

Telling me to relax or smile when I’m angry is like bringing a birthday cake into an ape sanctuary...
AMY POEHLER

Decide what your currency is early. Let go of what you will never have. People who do this are happi...
AMY POEHLER

You have to care about your work but not about the result. You have to care about how good you are a...
AMY POEHLER

People are their most beautiful when they are laughing, crying, dancing, playing, telling the truth,...
AMY POEHLER

I think we should stop asking people in their twenties what they “want to do” and start asking t...
AMY POEHLER

I have realized that mystery is what keeps people away, and I’ve grown tired of smoke and mirrors....
AMY POEHLER

Sticking up for ourselves in the same way we would one of our friends is a hard but satisfying thing...
AMY POEHLER

if you can dance and be free and not embarrassed you can rule the world.
AMY POEHLER

Now, before I extend this metaphor, let me make a distinction between career and creativity. Creativ...
AMY POEHLER

This is a good case to take to the Supreme Court.
BILL POEHLER

It's a promising first step. We'll see what happens as it moves through the courts.
BILL POEHLER

It's hopeful that with the new court, they will recognize there's a need to protect the lives of unb...
BILL POEHLER

If you only get one roller-coaster ride, you don't want to be thinking about the second one when...
GREG POEHLER

It's interesting because Swedes subtitle everything, so they're so used to it. When my wife ...
GREG POEHLER

I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The...
AMY GRANT

It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old...
AMY GRANT

You have to treat people gently because we're all in a process. What might seem like a good idea...
AMY GRANT

Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we pla...
AMY GRANT

The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.
AMY GRANT

Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn't live like a star. He'd ...
AMY GRANT

I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's somethin...
AMY GRANT

Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much ...
AMY GRANT

I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced...
AMY GRANT

There is not a formula for the way that God heals. There's not a timetable.
AMY GRANT

I think what I mostly realize is just that life is unpredictable. So don't be afraid, but just e...
AMY GRANT

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature...
AMY GRANT

The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity.
AMY GRANT

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with comp...
AMY GRANT

I think our culture encourages all of us to always put our best foot forward. I think it's a goo...
AMY GRANT

Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the C...
AMY GRANT

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect,...
AMY GRANT

Real relationship is gritty and earthy, the stuff that life is made of.
AMY GRANT

Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends...
AMY GRANT

Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's sh...
AMY GRANT

I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.
AMY PURDY

I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was d...
AMY LEE

I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy.
AMY LEE

Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad thi...
AMY BLOOM

Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conqu...
AMY CHUA

Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel...
AMY GRANT

My ideal meal varies, depending on the time of year. Lobster on a deck overlooking a beach at sunset...
AMY BLOOM

Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.
AMY WINEHOUSE

These people are the air I breathe and the blood I bleed. They are my courage. I will not let them d...
AMY EWING

I think you can do anything you put your mind to
AMY EWING

It would be easier to forget you," he says to me, "and these past few weeks we've had together. It w...
AMY EWING

Violet’s eyes meet mine. I give her a look that tries to say, “What is wrong with these people?
AMY EWING

Hope is a precious thing, isn’t it,” she says. “And yet, we don’t really appreciate it until...
AMY EWING

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evi...
AMY LOWELL

I’ve swapped disco lights for celestial lights but I’m still surrounded by dancers. I am orbited...
AMY LIPTROT

I feel like for me the lyric writing really comes from just what's going on in my heart and that...
AMY LEE

China cannot pull in the best and brightest from all over the world. It's an ethnically defined ...
AMY CHUA

The days of waiting for an outer authority to sanction your life path are over. Follow what matters ...
AMY MCTEAR

It's when I compare myself to what other people are able to do that I run into trouble. It is a ...
AMY PURDY

After you play husband and wife on camera multiple times, it becomes easy to be husband and wife off...
AMY YASBECK

Over-the-knee socks remind me of the 1920s, silent films, and the stars of the era who wore the roll...
AMY HECKERLING

Look at Jane Lynch, another Chicagoan. She has a career I'd kill for. She does amazing work; she...
AMY LANDECKER

Now I think that going to the gym is the best drug. I go four times a week and it gives me the buzz ...
AMY WINEHOUSE

Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and...
AMY ALCOTT

Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
AMY BLOOM

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone.
AMY VANDERBILT

Ceremony is-really a protection, too, in times of emotional involvement, particularly at death. If w...
AMY VANDERBILT

I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularl...
AMY VANDERBILT

Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior....
AMY VANDERBILT

When I was growing up I actually was into Bon Jovi!
AMY RYAN

Politicians are very experienced - maybe too experienced - at using body language to signal power an...
AMY CUDDY

Body image - what we're supposed to look like - is made so unattainable that all girls are put i...
AMY HECKERLING

If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.
AMY GRANT

My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me (Tan is the author of what became T...
AMY TAN

My mum is really fair and has blonde hair, and my dad is not dark, either.
AMY JACKSON

It's a growing recommendation that we need to provide access for all park users, especially in parks...
AMY VANDERBILT

We don't really know much about their condition, ... other than that they had some bear bites and po...
AMY VANDERBILT

but if they were, I don't think they used it. There just wasn't time.
AMY VANDERBILT

They just looked up and there she was.
AMY VANDERBILT

All books are either dreams or swords.
AMY LOWELL

Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.
AMY LOWELL

My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in ...
AMY ADAMS

Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I hav...
AMY ADAMS

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I...
AMY WINEHOUSE

When I look back at the pictures of our blended family the day Vince and I married, he and I are smi...
AMY GRANT

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are al...
AMY LOWELL

All books are either dreams or swords,You can cut, or you can drug, with words.
AMY LOWELL

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason w...
AMY LOWELL

There are few things so futile, and few so amusing, As a peaceful and purposeless sort of perusing O...
AMY LOWELL

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason ...
AMY LOWELL

You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.
AMY LOWELL

Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind...
AMY LOWELL

I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink dr...
AMY LOWELL

Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying yo...
AMY TAN

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change ...
AMY TAN

Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or sooth...
AMY GERSTLER

Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his ...
AMY SEDARIS

Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place ...
AMY PLUM

God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing el...
AMY CARMICHAEL

Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were ...
AMY SEDARIS

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.
AMY BLOOM

I want to be someone strong and brave enough to make hard choices. But I want to be fair and loving ...
AMY ENGEL

Share your voice and your heart. Listen to how it falls in with the cosmic symphony. Let it be imper...
AMY MCTEAR

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
AMY CARMICHAEL

Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.
AMY TAN

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not mere...
AMY VANDERBILT

Even Pain pricks to livelier living.
AMY LOWELL

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
AMY TAN

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.
AMY TAN

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
AMY LOWELL

With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.
AMY TAN

We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may ne...
AMY VANDERBILT

Moon! Moon! am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.
AMY LOWELL

Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pre...
AMY CARMICHAEL

A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
AMY LOWELL

Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
AMY LOWELL

Soft-heartedness, in times like these, Shows sof'ness in the upper story!
AMY LOWELL

Good manners have much to do with emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely...
AMY VANDERBILT

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
AMY LOWELL

No animal is so inexhaustable as an excited infant.
AMY LESLIE

Your true life is the one that would be the greatest gift you could give to others.
AMY MCTEAR

Frugality without creativity is deprivation.
AMY DACYCZYN

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the wor...
AMY LOWELL

Memory feeds imagination.
AMY TAN

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!
AMY TAN

Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped' had a lot of good songs. It's my range, so I use it ...
AMY LEE

I don't think it should be a surprise when we're talking about energy and trying to have mor...
AMY KLOBUCHAR

I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance a...
AMY KLOBUCHAR

There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have...
AMY LEE

Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's n...
AMY LEE

When I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8...
AMY ROBACH

I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried pr...
AMY WALDMAN

I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had w...
AMY CHUA

Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me th...
AMY WALDMAN

I was on my death bed, and I remember hanging on to these words, 'Don't be scared. You are g...
AMY PURDY

The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins a...
AMY LEE

In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In Amer...
AMY CHUA

At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing a...
AMY TAN

Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, tra...
AMY CHUA

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.
AMY WINEHOUSE

Pfizer's actually teamed up with my nonprofit organization, which is called Adaptive Action Spor...
AMY PURDY

After I lost my legs, all I wanted to do was snowboard again. I remember spending an entire year on ...
AMY PURDY

When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accuse...
AMY ADAMS

I've always hated the way Hollywood has portrayed accountants. They're always little nerd ba...
AMY HECKERLING

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.

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I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.

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