Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue.
TINA FEYWhen 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.
More Tina Fey Quotes
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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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Thomas Jefferson-another gorgeous white boy who would not have been interested in me. This was my problem in a nutshell. To get some play in Charlottesville, you had to be either a Martha Jefferson or a Sally Hemings.
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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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(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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Sometimes if you have a difficult decisin to make, just stall until the answer presents itself.
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(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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And I can see Russia from my house.
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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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Don’t be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable.
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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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Even more amazing: not the worst review the movie got.
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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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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.
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Not only is my wardrobe totally average, my body’s totally average. I love all the candy-fantasy fulfillment of Sex and the City.
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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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