A biography for Amy Sedarishasn’t been written yet.
“Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great.”
“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.”
“I am an aging Girl Scout.”
“I stayed in New York City for the first time, I'd always wanted to do that.”
“More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They don't like to see an ugly lady.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color.”
“I love theatrical props: a cup filled with solid fake tea, say, or a collection of fake food, including a rubber turkey, which, during the holidays, I wrap in tinfoil so it appears to have just come out of the oven.”
“A lot of times girls think they're funny, but they want to pretty at the same time, and if you want to be funny, you have to be willing to get ugly.”
“Accentuaute the positives - medicate the negatives.”
“My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice.”
“I have a very muscular face.”
“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.”
“David and Dad didn't get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn't going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they're like best friends.”
“People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.”
“I hate playing pretty or sane people. Most people are not attractive or all there.”
“My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea market.”
“A lot of crafters, they're shut-ins.”
“Books are challenging and inspirational to me.”