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When humor works, it works because it’s clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.

Tina Fey

When I turned 50, I looked in the mirror and I thought: “Hey, this isn’t the dress rehearsal, this is life and I don’t know how much longer I’m going to have!”
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Dress Dresses Fifty Hey Know Life Look Mirror Rehearsal Thought Turn
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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Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions… Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.
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Change Confidence Motivational Opinion Self Esteem Waste
It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food, but I don’t write articles trying to prove it doesn’t exist.
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I want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities.
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My standard answer is that I have the same struggle as any working parent but with the good fortune to be working at my dream job. Or sometimes I just hand them a juicy red apple I’ve poisoned in my working-mother witch cauldron and fly away.
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I am going to dedicate myself, full time, to my day-drinking.
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Photoshop is just like makeup. When it’s done well it looks great, and when it’s overdone you look like a crazy asshole.
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Crazy Done Great Like Look Makeup Overcome Photoshop Witty
Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.
TINA FEY

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I think women dress for other women to let them know what their deal is. Because if women were only dressing for men, there would be nothing but Victoria’s Secret. There would be no Dior.
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Start with a ‘Yes’, and see where that takes you.
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Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.
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Sometimes if you have a difficult decisin to make, just stall until the answer presents itself.
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North Korea referred to The Interview as absolutely intolerable and a wanton act of terror.
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Obviously, as an adult I realize this girl-on-girl sabotage is the third worst kind of female behavior, right behind saying “like” all the time and leaving your baby in a dumpster.
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Nothing is creepier than a bunch of adults being very quiet.
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