If you are a woman and you bought this book for practical tips on how to make it in a male-dominated workplace, here they are. No pigtails, no tube tops. Cry sparingly.
TINA FEYYou 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.”
More Tina Fey Quotes
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If you ever start to feel good about yourself… …. they have this thing called the internet.
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Why are my arms so weak? It’s like I did that push-up last year for nothing!
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This week, penny collector Gene Sukie went to the bank and cashed in ten thousand pounds of pennies he had collected over 34 years, which were worth over fourteen thousand dollars. And, of course, I was in line behind him.
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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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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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If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important Rule of Beauty. “Who cares?”
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It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live TV.
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North Korea referred to The Interview as absolutely intolerable and a wanton act of terror.
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When humor works, it works because it’s clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.
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There are a couple of things I want to impart to ladies who want to be in comedy: One, you don’t have to be weird or be quirky to get your job done. And two, comedy skill is not sexually transmittable.
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You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.
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When a coworker shows me cute pictures of her dog, I struggle to respond correctly, like an autistic person who has been taught to recognize human emotions from flash cards. In short, I am the worst.
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I was first in my class at Johns Hopkins, so?” Make statements, with your actions and your voice.
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I don’t like a tremendous amount of conflict. I don’t think that fighting and passion are the same thing.
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There are no mistakes only opportunities.
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