For my first show at ‘SNL’, I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn’t getting any laughs.
TINA FEYSometimes you want to have a very productive Saturday to feel that you are in control of your life, which of course you are not.
More Tina Fey Quotes
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I am constantly amazed by Tina Fey. And I am Tina Fey.
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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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Nothing is creepier than a bunch of adults being very quiet.
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Even more amazing: not the worst review the movie got.
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I prefer the retro chic of spending Christmas just like Joseph and Mary did – Traveling arduously back to the place of your birth to be counted, with no guarantee of a bed when you get there.
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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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There are no mistakes only opportunities.
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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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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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When humor works, it works because it’s clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.
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I have no affinity for animals. I don’t hate animals and I would never hurt an animal; I just don’t actively care about them.
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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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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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So, my unsolicited advice to women in the workplace is this. When faced with sexism, or ageism, or lookism, or even really aggressive Buddhism, ask yourself the following question: “Is this person in between me and what I want to do?”
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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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