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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?

Tina Fey

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
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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Another Boy Boys Country Gorgeous Interested People Person Play Problem White
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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Accept Country Live Part Pick Think
In real life, people in the most dire situations must cope through humor.
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Cope Humor Life People Real Situation
My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.
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Ability Acne Anxiety Chin Good Turn Witty
In a study, scientists report that drinking beer can be good for the liver. I’m sorry, did I say ‘scientists’? I meant Irish people.
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Beer Drink Funny Good Liver Party Report Sorry
My work is my work. I take my work seriously but I don’t take myself too seriously.
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Myself Seriously Take Work
There are no mistakes only opportunities.
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Inspirational Mistake Opportunity Successful
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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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
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
To say I’m an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair.
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Life is improvisation.
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Improvisation Inspirational Life Is
You transition as a mother from literally just pulling a booger out of that person’s nose whenever you see one until at some point they assert: “No, I’m a person. You can’t fix my underpants on the subway.”
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Literally Mother Nose One Pull Transition
Don’t be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable.
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Anything Attach Lety Thing Write
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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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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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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