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When humor works, it works because it’s clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.

Tina Fey

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 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
In Washington, officials from the National Rifle Association met with a group of high school students. There were no survivors.
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Asociation Country Funny High Humor Met National Official Rifle School Student
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
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
Every kid has something they’re good at, that you hope they find and gravitate toward.
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Final Good Gravitate Kid Learning School Something Toward
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
You’ve got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.
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Experience Survive Sweating Understand
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.
TINA FEY

Answer Apple Cauldron Fortune Good Juicy Mother Parent Poison Same Standard Work
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.
TINA FEY

Biscuit Born Cheddar Doe Food Liars Like Lobster Red Women
I hire people that are good, and aren’t crazy. Or assholes. Because that takes up too much time. There are just as many good people who are not crazy.
TINA FEY

Asshole Crazy Good Much People Take Time
Just say yes and you’ll figure it out afterwards.
TINA FEY

Afterward Figures Hate Saying Yes
(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
Sometimes if you have a difficult decisin to make, just stall until the answer presents itself.
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Answer Difficult Itself Present Sometimes Stail
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.
TINA FEY

Adjective Blorfit Excite Little Mean Mostly Stress Witty
Not only is my wardrobe totally average, my body’s totally average. I love all the candy-fantasy fulfillment of Sex and the City.
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Average Cities Sex Totally Wardrobe

When humor works, it works because it’s clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.

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