Amy Sedaris

Actress, comedian, and writer

1961-03-29

Amy Sedaris is an American actress, comedian, and writer known for Strangers with Candy and At Home with Amy Sedaris.

Books by Amy Sedaris

I Like You
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Simple Times
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The book of Liz
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Quotes by Amy Sedaris

Accentuaute the positives - medicate the negatives.
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Don't answer the door in a wedding dress and veil, he might not think you're joking.
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Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.
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My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice.
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Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later he may be with his real girlfriend.
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Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later he may be with his real girlfriend.
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Accentuaute the positives - medicate the negatives.
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Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.
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Don't answer the door in a wedding dress and veil, he might not think you're joking.
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My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice.
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I like to just make things... If I have the TV on, I'm not just going to sit there. I want to do something with my hands; I've always got a project. Or I get a small group of people over, and I say, 'Let's make these things today.'
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My kitchen's pink, like skin-tone pink, and I lowered my spice rack so it's eye level - it's true! - and my phone, so I can reach it when I fall, it's right there.
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I have a lot of fake food in my apartment, but I'm picky about it. Old plaster food, like from the '50s is really nice, hollowed out paper-mache food from old plays - the new stuff just looks too good.
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I like to decide the night before Thanksgiving that I'm gonna do it, and I'll see what riff raff is around. Then I get that last-minute surge of energy. But if I had two weeks to plan, sometimes I wish I wasn't doing it. But very seldom does that happen.
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Sometimes, to keep things exciting, I decorate my house as if I owned a child. I'll toss a tiny pair of shoes in the hallway or lean small wooden crutches in what I refer to as 'the baby's room,' which is actually a tiny space where I make things. I continue to call it the baby's room because it confuses people and it's creepy.
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Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great.
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But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty.
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I'm always more attracted to the unattractive.
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I like to play unattractive people who think they're pretty. You can do what you want, but I prefer to look interesting.
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I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive.
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