(My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word FARTING.)
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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An acting teacher once told me, ‘Greet everything with yes… Even if you abandon one idea for another one, saying yes allows you to move forward.’
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Just say yes and you’ll figure it out afterwards.
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There are no mistakes only opportunities.
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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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Everybody kind of gets to be the person they didn’t get to be.
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If you are a woman and you bought this book for practical tips on how to make it in a male-dominated workplace, here they are. No pigtails, no tube tops. Cry sparingly.
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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.
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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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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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If you ever start to feel good about yourself… …. they have this thing called the internet.
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I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it’s only because I struggle with math.
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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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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 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 my experience, the hardest thing about having someone “come out” to you is the “pretending to be surprised” part.
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