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.
TINA FEYDon’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions… Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.
More Tina Fey Quotes
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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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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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Every kid has something they’re good at, that you hope they find and gravitate toward.
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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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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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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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Maternity leave is over for Tina Fey of Saturday Night Live. She’ll be back behind the Weekend Update anchor desk for this week’s episode, her first show since giving birth to daughter Alice on Sept. 10.
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You’re not in competition with other women. You’re in competition with everyone.
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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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You do not have to sleep with a comedian to learn what you’re doing. Male comedians will not like that advice, but it is the truth.
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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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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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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.
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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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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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