I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it’s only because I struggle with math.
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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.
More Tina Fey Quotes
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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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Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions… Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.
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Everybody kind of gets to be the person they didn’t get to be.
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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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You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.
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Sometimes you want to have a very productive Saturday to feel that you are in control of your life, which of course you are not.
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‘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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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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In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone “come out” to you is the “pretending to be surprised” part.
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Don’t be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable.
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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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I think someone should design exercise machines that reward people with sex at the end of their workouts, because people will perform superhuman feats for even the faint hope of that.
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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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I do like to start on time; I like to set the bar high for people.
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I was first in my class at Johns Hopkins, so?” Make statements, with your actions and your voice.
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In real life, people in the most dire situations must cope through humor.
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