#about

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.' ↗

— Amy Poehler

#always #closed #keep #know #limit

I don't watch a lot of comedy. For relaxation and escape, I watch shows about how people survive bear attacks. Or old episodes of 'Law and Order,' the Benjamin Bratt/Jerry Orbach era. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#attacks #bear #benjamin #comedy #episodes

I have to say I enjoy physical comedy and I've always loved to kind of take risks. I don't like worrying too much about how I look or how I come across, so that can sometimes... You know, I like to play those kinds of deluded but fun characters. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#across #always #characters #come #comedy

I'd say any good set or any comedy that I've worked on, that's worked, has been comedians pitching ideas back and forth to each other. A lot of like, 'What if you say this? What about this?' ↗

— Amy Poehler

#any #back #been #comedians #comedy

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. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#actually #always #character #class #come

There's something so romantic about being broke in New York. You gotta do it. You have to live there once without any money, and then you have to live there when you have money. Let me tell you, of the two, the latter is far better. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#any #being #being broke #better #broke

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#book #chasing #doing #i #pleasures

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#catholic #constitutes #fiction #i #pretty

A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#artist #experiences #great #his #impression

I like a guy who makes me laugh, doesn't care about the fame, the show, he just likes me for me, he likes Nicole. ↗

— Nicole Polizzi

#care #fame #guy #i #just