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.
TINA FEYSome people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.
More Tina Fey Quotes
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It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food, but I don’t write articles trying to prove it doesn’t exist.
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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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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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Ah, babies! They’re more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts.
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There is no one of-woman-born who does not like Red Lobster cheddar biscuits. Anyone who claims otherwise is a liar and a Socialist.
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I can’t possibly take time off for a second baby, unless I do, in which case that is nobody’s business and I’ll never regret it for a moment unless it ruins my life.
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In an attempt to make things easier for myself, which is the basis for all of history’s worst decisions […].
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I was first in my class at Johns Hopkins, so?” Make statements, with your actions and your voice.
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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?”
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North Korea referred to The Interview as absolutely intolerable and a wanton act of terror.
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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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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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When humor works, it works because it’s clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.
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I am going to dedicate myself, full time, to my day-drinking.
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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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