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You’re not in competition with other women. You’re in competition with everyone.

Tina Fey

(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 Everyone never People Say Some Terrify
I was first in my class at Johns Hopkins, so?” Make statements, with your actions and your voice.
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Action Class Country First Make People Place Statement Voice
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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Baby Daughter Leave Maternity Night Over Saturday Weekend
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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Baby Book Down Husband Love Pick Pray Prejudice Pride Right
This week, penny collector Gene Sukie went to the bank and cashed in ten thousand pounds of pennies he had collected over 34 years, which were worth over fourteen thousand dollars. And, of course, I was in line behind him.
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Collector Country Funny Humor Penny People Person Pound Thousand Year
In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone “come out” to you is the “pretending to be surprised” part.
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Come Experience Hardest Out Pretending Someone Surprise
I do like to start on time; I like to set the bar high for people.
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Bar High People Start Time
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 think someone should design exercise machines that reward people with sex at the end of their workouts, because people will perform superhuman feats for even the faint hope of that.
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Design Excercise Funny Machine People Reward Sex Someone Workout
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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Adjective Blorfit Excite Little Mean Mostly Stress Witty
Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.
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Confidence Delusion Hard Hilarious Percent Ten Work
I am going to dedicate myself, full time, to my day-drinking.
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Day Drinking Delicate Drinking Full Go Time
You can’t control things by being nervous.
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Being Control Nervous Thing
People lose their minds, trying to prove their parental worth by getting their children into one of five colleges; when there are thousands of good colleges across the United States – and elsewhere.
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Children Country Elsewhere Mind Parent People Prove Thousand
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?”
TINA FEY

Ageism Face Funny Motivational Inspirational Lookism Sexism Unsolicited Witty Workplace
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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Answer Apple Cauldron Fortune Good Juicy Mother Parent Poison Same Standard Work

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