Sometimes working within the rules of [broadcast] can really be helpful for comedy, this show feels like we try to push it a little bit so it should feel a little edgy because we want young people to feel like they're watching something that's a little too old for them.

Amy Poehler

The pressure of 'what are you going to do?' makes everyone feel like they haven't done anything yet.

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done pressure feels

Some people get in the way of change happening. Some people spend their whole careers thinking they can make a difference. Other people want to do as little as possible to get the day done.

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differences careers thinking

Make no a complete sentence.

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sentences

I have realized that mystery is what keeps people away, and I've grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the clean, well-lighted place. So let's peek behind the curtain and hail the others like us. The open-faced sandwiches who take risks and live big and smile with all of their teeth. These are the people I want to be around. This is the honest way I want to live and love and write.

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tired mirrors writing

I used to get my hair dyed at a place called Big Hair. It cost $15. They just used straight bleach, so my hair was the color of white lined paper, and my eyebrows looked like they were done with a thick black marker.

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eyebrows color hair

During an interview with Katie Couric Tuesday, Sarah Palin says she is not opposed to gay people, adding 'One of my absolute best friends for the last 30 years happens to be gay and I love her dearly and she doesn't exist.'

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gay people years

I love bossy women. Some people hate the word, and I understand how "bossy" can seem like a shitty way to describe a woman with a determined point of view, but for me, a bossy woman is someone to search out and celebrate. A bossy woman is someone who cares and commits and is a natural leader.

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hate views people

I think if I have established anything in my book, it's that a key element of being my friend is being comfortable with my forced fun.

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fun book thinking

I don't think a man who is fifteen years younger than me should tell me he is proud of me unless he is my sober coach or my time-travel dad.

Amy Poehler

dad men thinking

I have withdrawal pains about not getting to work the people (on the show).

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withdrawal pain people

It seems a strange thing, but once I was able to get past that kind of self-image problem, I was able to open up in my comedy work and just go all out, take chances, and have fun with the performance aspect of that.

Amy Poehler

self fun past

I had to come to terms with how I saw myself. I had to understand that I wasn't pretty or beautiful like most actresses and that I shouldn't care about whether other people found me attractive or not.

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care beautiful people

[At Boston College] I started working on the kinds of skills that you need for comedy. It's about being creative and learning to use your gift for being able to let loose and be very unself-conscious. It took me time though before I was really able to get comfortable doing that.

Amy Poehler

boston skills college

What I like about all these giant superhero movies is that they speak to the issues that I'm dealing with - working mother and time management and how to be an interesting, sexual, curious woman in your 40s.

Amy Poehler

issues mother interesting

Talented men are not threatened by talented women. They welcome them. And same way with real men.

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real men way

I just want to help other women achieve as much as they can in society without restraints being imposed on us. It's the most natural and normal thing to want to defend your rights to equal opportunities, equal pay for equal work, and everything that comes with that.

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helping-others rights opportunity

I like to do things that challenge me and make me nervous.

Amy Poehler

nervous challenges

You learn early as an actor that creating your own material is the only way to have any control.

Amy Poehler

creating actors way

I used to say that I wanted to make great art with people I love. Now I have an addendum to that goal: to get things on the air.

Amy Poehler

air people art

Forgiveness is something that's always possibility.

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possibility