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. Amy Poehler More Quotes by Amy Poehler More Quotes From Amy Poehler Sticking up for ourselves in the same way we would one of our friends is a hard but satisfying thing to do. Sometimes it works. Amy Poehler please sometimes way Anger and embarrassment are often neighbors. Amy Poehler embarrassment neighbor Telling me to relax or smile when I'm angry is like bringing a birthday cake into an ape sanctuary. You're just asking to get your nose and genitals bitten off. Amy Poehler apes cake relax I find that, in general, the amount of sharing men do with each other in one year is about the same as what I share with my female friends while we wait for our cars at the valet. Amy Poehler car men years I have these meetings with really powerful men and they ask me all the time, 'Where are your kids? Are your kids here?' It's such a weird question. Never in a million years do I ask guys where their kids are. It would be comparable to me going to a guy, 'Do you feel like you see your kids enough?' Amy Poehler powerful men kids In my twenties I tried cocaine, which I instantly loved but eventually hated. Cocaine is terrific if you want to hang out with people you don't know very well and play Ping-Pong all night. It's bad for almost everything else. Amy Poehler play night people Most authors liken the struggle of writing to something mighty and macho, like wrestling a bear. Writing a book is nothing like that. It is a small, slow crawl to the finish line. Honestly, I have moments when I don't even care if anyone reads this book. I just want to finish it. Amy Poehler struggle wrestling book I've failed a million times on stage. I've listened to notes that I knew weren't right. I've pitched ideas and let other people change them, knowing that it was the wrong choice. The question you have to ask yourself is: How do you want to fail? Do you want to fail in a way that feels like it respects your tastes and value system? Amy Poehler knowing people ideas Rooting for other people's failure does get in the way of your success...when you can wish good things for people and rejoice when they get it, so many gifts and blessings come to you that you can't even imagine. Amy Poehler blessing wish people Great people do things before they're ready...You might find out something about yourself that's really special and if you're not good, who cares? You tried something. Amy Poehler who-cares special people Reading was a way to make friends or enemies, a way to discover how all these different people exist in the world and to rub shoulders with them. The ability to feel as if you have met someone, as if that person exists in flesh and blood and that you relate to them somehow, makes you feel a lot less lonely. And it also makes you feel very brave. Amy Poehler lonely reading blood Most of the women in your life will outlast the men in your life. The Saturday Night Live ladies - Maya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch, Tina - and I text pictures of our kids back and forth all the time. It keeps us connected. As my nanny used to say, the older you get, the more important it is to know people that knew you when. Amy Poehler men night kids Earlier today former Vermont Governor Howard Dean became the new head of the Democratic National Committee -- no word on who will be the neck. Amy Poehler vermont necks today If the goal is doing good stuff and working with your friends ... if you’re doing that then you’re succeeding. Amy Poehler succeed goal stuff Your career and your passion don't always match up. Plenty of talented people don't have the careers they want. Plenty of untalented people make millions and make movies. There is a difference between determination and talent. Amy Poehler passion differences determination You can tell someone you love them first. You can try to speak only the truth for a whole week. You can jump out of an airplane or spend Christmas Day all by your lonesome. You can help people who need help and fight real bad guys. You can dance fast or take an improv class or do one of those Ironman things… Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul. Amy Poehler airplane real heart My phone is trying to kill me. It is a battery-charged rectangle of disappointment and possibility. It is a technological pacifier. Amy Poehler phones technology disappointment Emotions are like passing storms, and you have to remind yourself that it won't rain forever. You just have to sit down and watch it pour outside and then peek your head out when it looks dry. Amy Poehler sadness rain forever If your career is a bad boyfriend, it is healthy to remember you can always leave and go sleep with somebody else. Amy Poehler careers remembers-you sleep I've grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the clean, well-lighted place. Amy Poehler clean tired mirrors
