"I like to do things that challenge..." - Quote by Amy Poehler
I like to do things that challenge me and make me nervous.
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“Make no a complete sentence.”
“I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum, play a kazoo, and sing 'Happy Birthday' to people while giving them free birthday sundaes. Lots of ice cream scooping and $1 tips.”
“Sometimes in my class I have people come in and do monologues inspired by people they know and I always find that to be useful to do specifics about somebody and then you're actually doing a character and not doing some random old lady or something.”
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“Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.”
“Look at guys like Larry Bird and George Brett and John McEnroe; that's what they did in their careers. They all wanted to be the guy under the microscope late in the game or late in the match. So you just take on that know-how that that's part of your responsibility, and you learn that's what makes it exciting. That's what makes it fun!”
“Easy times are the enemy, they put us to sleep. Adversity is our friend, it wakes us up”
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“Progress does not occur without change.”
“Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.”
“Within us - the heart of us, really - is a 'ground' that is to our thoughts and feelings, our relationships with others and ourselves, as is the Earth to the leaves that first race across her and then, no longer able to run, give themselves up to nourish her body so that she may give birth again come the spring.”