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I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.

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Rest, My Life, Always, Easter

I always liked my teachers, and I was in a lot of after-school projects. I was a Girl Scout until my senior year, when I couldn't be a Girl Scout anymore. I was in clubs like Junior Achievement, and I ran track and field. My grades were good, but then toward 11th grade they were nothing. I always went to summer school.

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Achievement, Year, Projects, Senior

My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea market.

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Behind, Often, Discovered, Flea

Don't make anybody a homemade gift. Unless you're really good, or it's going to be really practical. If it's a little thing you think is cute 'cause you made it, just forget it.

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Gift, Think, Practical, Homemade

Whenever I do your show, sometimes I get a little check in the mail and then I take that check and buy a new pair of shoes, and then I wear those shoes the next time I do your show.

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New, Next, Mail, Next Time

Usually I'm the one asking somebody to do something because I don't know how to finish it. I'm like, 'Do this for me' because I'm just resistant to learning.

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Learning, Asking, Like, Resistant

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.

- Amy Sedaris

Doing, Very, Riff, Two Weeks

I think it's still kind of weird to memorize a line, because you're supposed to 'be' this person, you know? So then its like, if I'm really this person, how can I be in the moment if I know there's just one line I'm supposed to say? It doesn't feel natural. I always just kind of want to say whatever comes up.

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Feel, Line, I Think, One Line

I never really take shortcuts. I was always one of those people who, instead of cutting across someone's yard on the way home from school, I would go to the end of the block and turn.

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Turn, Yard, Shortcuts, Block

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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Small, Confuses, Decorate, Refer

I'm always more attracted to the unattractive.

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More, Always, Attracted, Unattractive

I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive.

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Think, Attractive, Unattractive

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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Play, Think, Pretty, Unattractive

I like to make things, but I looked at old craft books on weaving or mosaics or whatever, I'm like, 'I don't really know anything about that stuff.'

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Old, Like, Looked, Weaving

It was more of their quirky show. It was more like a cult show. The ratings weren't really that high.

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High, Like, Cult, Ratings

Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great.

- Amy Sedaris

New, Jazz, Festival, New Orleans

I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color.

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Color, Camel, Gonna, Old Lady

I always knew I didn't want kids, and I didn't want to get married.

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Want, Always, Knew, Get Married

I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop.

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Love, Always, Shop, Prop

I want witchcraft so bad that I can't stand it. I have wands in my apartment. And I use them sometimes. I walk into the kitchen with my wand, and I come out with something on a platter and I say, 'See, magic happens.' Works every time.

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Magic, Platter, Works, Every Time

I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's going to get edited. I think that comes from being in a large family, so you have to get your story in really quick or someone cuts you off.

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Quick, I Think, Your, Interrupted

When I'm by myself, I never play music. I have a lot of it, for a girl, but I don't listen to it a lot. I hate picking music out; I'm not good at it.

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Myself, Girl, Play, Play Music

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

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Stupid, Always, Which, First Grade

I like to entertain in all aspects. When you're with somebody and you're out, you want to be entertained. I like to be around entertaining people. Even if they're bored, and you're in a convalescent home, there's something entertaining about that, in a way.

- Amy Sedaris

Entertain, Entertaining, Entertained

I feel confident writing on my feet with improv, but it's different when you're sitting down and writing it out.

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Feet, Confident, Feel, Sitting

You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air.

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Small, Always, Like, Old Movies

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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Pink, Like, Rack, Kitchen

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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Small, Hands, TV, Group

I really don't like going out. I don't like restaurants because I don't like the idea of someone, a waitress, being responsible for my evening. I like seconds, and more, and lots of conversation, and I've always hated the idea that in a restaurant an evening just ends. I find that incredibly depressing.

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Out, Idea, Seconds, Conversation

They just expected it to you know... Paul, Steve and I could have hired our own publicist, if we wanted to, but I kind of liked the way it was more of a cult thing and those that liked it, liked it, you know what I mean?

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Kind, More, Could, Hired

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