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Tina Fey

(My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word FARTING.)
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Children Moment Protest Time Uncles Witty
A wise friend once told me, ‘Don’t wear what fashion designers tell you to wear. Wear what they wear.’
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Designer Fashion Tell Wear Wise
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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Audience Cress Down Funny Humor Lady Laugh Like Man Men Old Push Start
I hire people that are good, and aren’t crazy. Or assholes. Because that takes up too much time. There are just as many good people who are not crazy.
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Asshole Crazy Good Much People Take Time
I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it’s only because I struggle with math.
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Again Crack Funny Inspirational Joke Like Math Struggle
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 Let Mad never People Some Witty
Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.
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Confidence Delusion Hard Hilarious Percent Ten Work
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
Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion, just thinking foolishly that you will be able to do what you want to do
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Confidence Delusion Hard Percent Ten Thinking Want Work
You’ve got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.
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Experience Survive Sweating Understand
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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Amount Conflict Fight Fighting Like Passion Same Thing Think Thinking Tremendous
It’s the same reason I don’t get Hooters. Why do we need to enjoy chicken wings and boobies at the same time? Yes, they are a natural and beautiful part of the human experience. And so are boobies. But why at the same time?
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Beautiful Boodies Chicken Enjoy Hooter Need Reason Same Time Wing Wings
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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Answer Better Energy Ignore Jerky Nove Outpace People Way
MAKE STATEMENTS also applies to us women: Speak in statements instead of apologetic questions. No one wants to go to a doctor who says, “I’m going to be your surgeon? I’m here to talk to you about your procedure?
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Accusatory Applies Class Constantly Eye Look Make Statement Voice Witty
In order to feel safer on his private jet, actor John Travolta has purchased a bomb-sniffing dog. Unfortunately for the actor, the dog came six movies too late.
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Bomb Dog Feel Late Order Purchase Safer Sniff Too
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

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