Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up. It's best when it's just left alone. It doesn't translate always on TV. It's best live.


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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