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

Tina Fey

I want every day to be the most boring news day ever. I want every day to be about spelling bee champions and baby basketball. It’s better to have no comedy material than a horrific news day.
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Baby Basketball Boring Champion Every Most News Spell
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
I feel like there is a lot of inherent humor in the stress and insanity surrounding that process.
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Children College Humour Insanity Proceed Stress Surround
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
What Turning Forty Means to Me I need to take my pants off as soon as I get home. I didn’t used to have to do that. But now I do.
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Fort Home Mean Need Pant Soon Take Turn Women
You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.
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Humor People Smart Tell Witty
For my first show at ‘SNL’, I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn’t getting any laughs.
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Bills Inspirational Laugh Laughing Real Show Sketch Thought
I want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities.
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Confidence Disproportionate Funny Look Parent Raise Thank
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
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
Photoshop is just like makeup. When it’s done well it looks great, and when it’s overdone you look like a crazy asshole.
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Crazy Done Great Like Look Makeup Overcome Photoshop Witty
Nothing is creepier than a bunch of adults being very quiet.
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Adult Bunch Creepier Nothing Quiet
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
When a coworker shows me cute pictures of her dog, I struggle to respond correctly, like an autistic person who has been taught to recognize human emotions from flash cards. In short, I am the worst.
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Autistic Coworker Emotion Person Picture Recognize Struggle Taught Worst
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
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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Bed Birth Chic Christmas Guarantee People Prefer Retro Spend

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