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If the answer is no, ignore it and move on. Your energy is better used doing your work and outpacing people that way. Then, when you’re in charge, don’t hire the people who were jerky to you.

Tina Fey

If you want to be a screenwriter, take an acting class to get a sense of what you’re asking actors to do. Learning other skills will help you communicate with people and respect what they do.
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Act Actor Ask Class People Screenwriter Sense Skill Want
Nothing is creepier than a bunch of adults being very quiet.
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Adult Bunch Creepier Nothing Quiet
People lose their minds, trying to prove their parental worth by getting their children into one of five colleges; when there are thousands of good colleges across the United States – and elsewhere.
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Children Country Elsewhere Mind Parent People Prove Thousand
You transition as a mother from literally just pulling a booger out of that person’s nose whenever you see one until at some point they assert: “No, I’m a person. You can’t fix my underpants on the subway.”
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Literally Mother Nose One Pull Transition
Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.
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If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.
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Audience Cress Down Funny Humor Lady Laugh Like Man Men Old Push Start
I was a little excited but mostly blorft. “Blorft” is an adjective I just made up that means ‘Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum.’ I have been blorft every day for the past seven years.
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Adjective Blorfit Excite Little Mean Mostly Stress Witty
You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.
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Funny Inspirational Impossible Strong Think Witty Woman
I think part of picking where you live in New York is accepting who you are. Really looking at yourself and going, ‘Yeah, I’m not cool enough for the West Village.’
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Accept Country Live Part Pick Think
I am going to dedicate myself, full time, to my day-drinking.
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Day Drinking Delicate Drinking Full Go Time
I prefer the retro chic of spending Christmas just like Joseph and Mary did – Traveling arduously back to the place of your birth to be counted, with no guarantee of a bed when you get there.
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Everybody kind of gets to be the person they didn’t get to be.
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Everybody Get Kind Person Prison
I was first in my class at Johns Hopkins, so?” Make statements, with your actions and your voice.
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Action Class Country First Make People Place Statement Voice
Thomas Jefferson-another gorgeous white boy who would not have been interested in me. This was my problem in a nutshell. To get some play in Charlottesville, you had to be either a Martha Jefferson or a Sally Hemings.
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Another Boy Boys Country Gorgeous Interested People Person Play Problem White
You can’t control things by being nervous.
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Being Control Nervous Thing
An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women’s Affairs. Man, who’d she have to show here ankles to to get that job?
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Country Funny Government Humor Include Interim Job Minister Set Whom Women

If the answer is no, ignore it and move on. Your energy is better used doing your work and outpacing people that way. Then, when you’re in charge, don’t hire the people who were jerky to you.

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If the answer is no, ignore it and move on. Your energy is better used doing your work and outpacing people that way. Then, when you’re in charge, don’t hire the people who were jerky to you.

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