My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.
TINA FEYNorth Korea referred to The Interview as absolutely intolerable and a wanton act of terror.
More Tina Fey Quotes
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Life is improvisation.
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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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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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Why are my arms so weak? It’s like I did that push-up last year for nothing!
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When actors are too good-looking, I can’t memorize them. For example, I have never seen a picture of Sienna Miller where I didn’t say, “That girl’s pretty. Who is that?
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Gravity”: “It’s the story of how George Clooney would rather float away into space and die then spend one more minute with a woman his own age.
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Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue.
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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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It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live TV.
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Start with a ‘Yes’, and see where that takes you.
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Ah, babies! They’re more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts.
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There are no mistakes only opportunities.
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In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone “come out” to you is the “pretending to be surprised” part.
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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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Seriously, I’ve just realized that almost everyone is a fraud, so I try not to feel too bad about it.
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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.
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I had to get back to work, .. NBC has me under contract; the baby and I have only a verbal agreement.
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Everybody kind of gets to be the person they didn’t get to be.
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(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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Now every girl is expected to have: Caucasian blue eyes, full Spanish lips, a classic button nose, hairless Asian skin with a California tan, a Jamaican dance hall ass, long Swedish legs, small Japanese feet, the abs of a lesbian gym owner, the hips of a nine-year-old boy.
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To say I’m an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair.
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When a man plays a woman in a dress, you’re halfway there. It’s inherently funny. When a woman plays a man, for whatever reason, it’s not that instant kind of funny.
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Lesson learned? When people say, “You really, really must” do something, it means you don’t really have to. No one ever says, “You really, really must deliver the baby during labor.” When it’s true, it doesn’t need to be said.
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Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.
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I’m not that good looking… nobody is that good looking. I have seen a lot of movie stars, and maybe four are amazing looking. The rest have a team of gay guys who make it happen.
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‘How do you juggle it all?’ people constantly ask me, with an accusatory look in their eyes. ‘You’re screwing it all up, aren’t you?’ their eyes say.
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