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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.

Tina Fey

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
You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.
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Humor People Smart Tell Witty
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
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
You can’t control things by being nervous.
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Being Control Nervous Thing
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
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
Sometimes if you have a difficult decisin to make, just stall until the answer presents itself.
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Answer Difficult Itself Present Sometimes Stail
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’ve got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.
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Experience Survive Sweating Understand
(Some people say “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.)
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Cry Everyone never People Say Some Terrify
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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Autistic Coworker Emotion Person Picture Recognize Struggle Taught Worst
Don’t be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable.
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Anything Attach Lety Thing Write
It was reported that the New York Knicks have won all 12 of the home games attended by magician David Blaine. A spokesman for the Knicks said, ‘if this is what it takes to win, it’s not worth it.’
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Attempt Celebrity Country Funny Hime Magical People Report Won
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

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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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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