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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!”

Tina Fey

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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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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In Washington, officials from the National Rifle Association met with a group of high school students. There were no survivors.
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Life is improvisation.
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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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I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it’s only because I struggle with math.
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Even more amazing: not the worst review the movie got.
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Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue.
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Read! When your baby is finally down for the night, pick up a juicy book like Eat, Pray, Love or Pride and Prejudice or my personal favorite,Understanding Sleep Disorders: Narcolepsy and Apnea.
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I do like to start on time; I like to set the bar high for people.
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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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If the answer is no, ignore it and move on. Your energy is better used doing your work and outpacing people that way. Then, when you’re in charge, don’t hire the people who were jerky to you.
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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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Just say yes and you’ll figure it out afterwards.
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Everybody kind of gets to be the person they didn’t get to be.
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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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If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important Rule of Beauty. “Who cares?”
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In an attempt to make things easier for myself, which is the basis for all of history’s worst decisions […].
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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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Gay people don’t actually try to convert people. That’s Jehovah’s Witnesses you’re thinking of.
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If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.
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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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There are no mistakes only opportunities.
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I feel like there is a lot of inherent humor in the stress and insanity surrounding that process.
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There is no one of-woman-born who does not like Red Lobster cheddar biscuits. Anyone who claims otherwise is a liar and a Socialist.
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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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When humor works, it works because it’s clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.
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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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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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