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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

If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.
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Audience Cress Down Funny Humor Lady Laugh Like Man Men Old Push Start
(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
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
Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue.
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Consider Inexperience Job Politics Prostitution Uinexperience Virtue
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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Agreement Baby Back Contract Nbc Verbal 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
I have no affinity for animals. I don’t hate animals and I would never hurt an animal; I just don’t actively care about them.
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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
You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.
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Humor People Smart Tell Witty
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 Let Mad never People Some Witty
‘How do you juggle it all?’ people constantly ask me, with an accusatory look in their eyes. ‘You’re screwing it all up, aren’t you?’ their eyes say.
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Accusatory All Ask Constant Dream Eye Job Juggle Look Mother People
Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.
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Inspiring Leadership Motivational
Gay people don’t actually try to convert people. That’s Jehovah’s Witnesses you’re thinking of.
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Actual Convert Gay People Thinking Witnesses Witty
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
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
In real life, people in the most dire situations must cope through humor.
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Cope Humor Life People Real Situation

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

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