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Tina Fey

This weight of embarrassment came over me, and I felt like I was sweating from my spine out. But I realized, ‘Okay, that happened, and I did not die.’ You’ve got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.
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Embarrassment Failure Feet Okay Spine Survive Understand Weight
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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Confidence Disproportionate Funny Look Parent Raise Thank
My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.
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Ability Acne Anxiety Chin Good Turn Witty
North Korea referred to The Interview as absolutely intolerable and a wanton act of terror.
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Absolute Act Country Interview Intolerable Refer Terror Wanton
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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Answer Apple Cauldron Fortune Good Juicy Mother Parent Poison Same Standard Work
To me YES, AND means don’t be afraid to contribute. Always make sure you’re adding something to the discussion. Your initiations are worthwhile.
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Afraid Contribute Discussion Mean Something Worthwhile
My work is my work. I take my work seriously but I don’t take myself too seriously.
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Myself Seriously Take Work
Not only is my wardrobe totally average, my body’s totally average. I love all the candy-fantasy fulfillment of Sex and the City.
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Average Cities Sex Totally Wardrobe
For my first show at ‘SNL’, I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn’t getting any laughs.
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Bills Inspirational Laugh Laughing Real Show Sketch Thought
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
I feel like there is a lot of inherent humor in the stress and insanity surrounding that process.
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Children College Humour Insanity Proceed Stress Surround
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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Adult Behaviour Female Funny Girl Kind Obvious Witty
I can’t possibly take time off for a second baby, unless I do, in which case that is nobody’s business and I’ll never regret it for a moment unless it ruins my life.
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Baby Business Nobody Poisble Regret Ruin Second Take Time Unless Do
Don’t be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable.
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Anything Attach Lety Thing Write
A wise friend once told me, ‘Don’t wear what fashion designers tell you to wear. Wear what they wear.’
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Designer Fashion Tell Wear Wise

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