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It Likes It When You Don’t Depend On It. It Will Reward You Every Time You Don’t Act Needy. It Will Chase You If You Act Like Other Things (passion, Friendship, Family, Longevity) Are More Important To You. If Your Career Is A Bad Boyfriend, It Is Healthy To Remember You Can Always Leave And Go Sleep With Somebody Else.

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It Likes It When

Amy Poehler

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It Likes It When You Don’t Depend On It. It Will Reward You Every Time You Don’t Act Needy. It Will Chase You If You Act Like Other Things (passion, Friendship, Family, Longevity) Are More Important To You. If Your Career Is A Bad Boyfriend, It Is Healthy To Remember You Can Always Leave And Go Sleep With Somebody Else.

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Any Painful Experience Makes You See Things Differently. It Also Reminds You Of The Simple Truths That We Purposely Forget Every Day Or Else We Would Never Get Out Of Bed.

Painful Experiences

You Have To Care About How Good You Are And How Good You Feel, But Not About How Good People Think You Are Or How Good People Think You Look.

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.

You Can't Look Stupid If You're Having Fun.

I'd Like To Think That I Don't Have A Stock Character That I Go To. I'm Lucky In That When You Get To Initiate Your Own Scene, You Get To Play Whoever You Want. That's Really Kind Of Cool, But All My Characters Are Short. I Look On The Videotape, And I Thought They Were Taller, But They're All 5'2".

I Have Withdrawal Pains About Not Getting To Work The People (on The Show).

When Young Girls Are Encouraged To Explore What They Find Interesting, They Grow Up To Be Interesting Women.

In Conclusion, I Invite The Media To All Grow A Pair. And If You Can't, I Will Lend You Mine.

When In Doubt, Make Funny Faces.

Too Often We Women Try To Tackle Chaos That Is Not Ours To Fix.

The Computer Is The New Fireplace, Everyone In The Family Gathers Around The Digital Hearth For Warmth.

If You Ever Want To See Heaven, Watch A Bunch Of Young Girls Play. They Are All Sweat And Skinned Knees. Energy And Open Faces.

It Likes It When You Don’t Depend On It. It Will Reward You Every Time You Don’t Act Needy. It Will Chase You If You Act Like Other Things (passion, Friendship, Family, Longevity) Are More Important To You. If Your Career Is A Bad Boyfriend, It Is Healthy To Remember You Can Always Leave And Go Sleep With Somebody Else.

Any Actor Or Actress That Tells You That They Don't Watch Their Stuff Is Lying.

Listen. Say Yes. Live In The Moment. Make Sure You Play With People Who Have Your Back. Make Big Choices Early And Often.

If You Are Lucky, There Is A Moment In Your Life When You Have Some Say As To What Your Currency Is Going To Be. I Decided Early On It Was Not Going To Be My Looks.

It Doesn't Matter How Much You Get; You Are Left Wanting More.

Calling People 'sweetheart' Makes Most People Enraged.

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.

If I Wanted To See Jonah Hill Masturbate At A Pool Party, I'd Go To One Of Jonah Hill's Pool Parties.

Going From Crying To Laughing That Fast And Hard Happens Maybe Five Times In Your Life And That Extreme Right Turn Is The Reason Why We Are Alive, And I Believe It Extends Our Life By Many Years.

The Minute Anyone Makes You Feel Weird And Non-included Or Not Supported, You Know, Either Beat It Or Tell Them To Beat It.

Anger And Embarrassment Are Often Neighbors.

Aw, I Feel Bad If [taylor] Was Upset. I Am A Feminist, And She Is A Young And Talented Girl. That Being Said, I Do Agree I Am Going To Hell. But For Other Reasons. Mostly Boring Tax Stuff.

Try To Keep Your Mind Open To Possibilities And Your Mouth Closed On Matters That You Don't Know About. Limit Your 'always' And Your 'nevers.'

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.

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.

I Had No Idea How To Get Guys To Notice Me. I Still Don't. Who Cares?

The Answer To A Lot Of Your Life's Questions Is Often In Someone Else's Face. People's Faces Will Tell You Amazing Things. Like If They Are Angry, Or Nauseous, Or Asleeptry To Keep Your Mind Open To Possibilities And Your Mouth Closed On Matters That You Don't Know About. Limit Your 'always' And Your 'nevers.' Continue To Share Your Heart With People Even If It Has Been Broken.

I Do Not Improvise In Heels.

Find A Group Of People Who Challenge And Inspire You, Spend A Lot Of Time With Them, And It Will Change Your Life.

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