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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

You’re not in competition with other women. You’re in competition with everyone.
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Another Business Competition Other Woman
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
There are no mistakes only opportunities.
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Inspirational Mistake Opportunity Successful
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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Arrogant Conclude Good Impressively Move Moving Witty Write
It’s the same reason I don’t get Hooters. Why do we need to enjoy chicken wings and boobies at the same time? Yes, they are a natural and beautiful part of the human experience. And so are boobies. But why at the same time?
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Beautiful Boodies Chicken Enjoy Hooter Need Reason Same Time Wing Wings
I was first in my class at Johns Hopkins, so?” Make statements, with your actions and your voice.
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Action Class Country First Make People Place Statement Voice
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.
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Answer Apple Cauldron Fortune Good Juicy Mother Parent Poison Same Standard Work
In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone “come out” to you is the “pretending to be surprised” part.
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Come Experience Hardest Out Pretending Someone Surprise
A Clinical Study. Taking some time to read each night really taught me how to feign narcolepsy when my husband asked me what my “plan” was for taking down the Christmas tree.
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Ask Christmas Clinical Each Feign Husband Read Some Study Talk Taught Tree
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
Everybody kind of gets to be the person they didn’t get to be.
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Everybody Get Kind Person Prison
If you want to be a screenwriter, take an acting class to get a sense of what you’re asking actors to do. Learning other skills will help you communicate with people and respect what they do.
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Act Actor Ask Class People Screenwriter Sense Skill Want
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.
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Asshole Crazy Good Much People Take Time
It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live TV.
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Boring Overrated Perfect TV Witty
To say I’m an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair.
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Bridge Bridges Even Guard Overrated Say Seen Troll Witty
An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women’s Affairs. Man, who’d she have to show here ankles to to get that job?
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Country Funny Government Humor Include Interim Job Minister Set Whom Women

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

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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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