Amy Poehler

Yes Please

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  • Anastasia Lavronenkohas quoted8 years ago
    I wrote this book after my kids went to sleep. I wrote this book on subways and on airplanes and
    in between setups while I shot a television show. I wrote this book from scribbled thoughts I kept in
    the Notes app on my iPhone and conversations I had with myself in my own head before I went to
    sleep. I wrote it ugly and in pieces.
  • Alejandra Arévalohas quoted6 years ago
    Say no? Say no to an opportunity that may be slightly out of our comfort zone? Quiet our voice because we are worried it is not perfect? I believe great people do things before they are ready.
  • Mykola Vyshniakovhas quoted7 years ago
    The only thing we can depend on in life is that everything changes. The seasons, our partners, what we want and need. We hold hands with our high school friends and swear to never lose touch, and then we do. We scrape ice off our cars and feel like winter will never end, and it does. We stand in the bathroom and look at our face and say, “Stop getting old, face. I command you!” and it doesn’t listen. Change is the only constant.
  • CharlotteGothamhas quoted9 years ago
    beautiful experience that takes place in an architectural room filled with leather novels and chai tea. They talk about their “morning ritual” and how they “dress for writing” and the cabin in Big Sur where they go to “be alone”—blah blah blah. No one tells the truth about writing a book. Authors pretend their stories were always shiny and perfect and just waiting to be written. The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not. Even I have lied about writing. I have told people that writing this book has been like brushing away dirt from a fossil. What a load of shit. It has been like hacking away at a freezer with a screwdriver.
  • Alejandra Arévalohas quoted6 years ago
    Your brain is not your friend when you need to apologize.
  • Rizka Gusmadyahas quoted8 years ago
    A person’s tragedy does not make up their entire life.
  • Ayesha Munawarhas quoted8 years ago
    Everyone lies about writing. They lie about how easy it is or how hard it was. They perpetuate a romantic idea that writing is some beautiful experience that takes place in an architectural room filled with leather novels and chai tea. They talk about their “morning ritual” and how they “dress for writing” and the cabin in Big Sur where they go to “be alone”—blah blah blah. No one tells the truth about writing a book. Authors pretend their stories were always shiny and perfect and just waiting to be written. The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.
  • Айгуль Батыроваhas quoted8 years ago
    I remember feeling like we both knew a secret: we were going to keep performing no matter what, and we both were going to have no money, stability, or children for the next ten years. I think we should stop asking people in their twenties what they “want to do” and start asking them what they don’t want to do.
  • Anastasia Lavronenkohas quoted8 years ago
    I WAS IN FOURTH GRADE AND IN TROUBLE
  • CharlotteGothamhas quoted9 years ago
    Writing a book is awful. It’s lonely, even with Archie beside me and my editors nagging me.
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