I had to get back to work, .. NBC has me under contract; the baby and I have only a verbal agreement.
TINA FEYRead! When your baby is finally down for the night, pick up a juicy book like Eat, Pray, Love or Pride and Prejudice or my personal favorite,Understanding Sleep Disorders: Narcolepsy and Apnea.
More Tina Fey Quotes
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Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.
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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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And I can see Russia from my house.
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North Korea referred to The Interview as absolutely intolerable and a wanton act of terror.
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Gravity”: “It’s the story of how George Clooney would rather float away into space and die then spend one more minute with a woman his own age.
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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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Obviously, as an adult I realize this girl-on-girl sabotage is the third worst kind of female behavior, right behind saying “like” all the time and leaving your baby in a dumpster.
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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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I can’t possibly take time off for a second baby, unless I do, in which case that is nobody’s business and I’ll never regret it for a moment unless it ruins my life.
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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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According to a new study, women in satisfying marriages are less likely to develop cardiovascular diseases than unmarried women. So don’t worry, lonely women, you’ll be dead soon.
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I feel like there is a lot of inherent humor in the stress and insanity surrounding that process.
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If you are a woman and you bought this book for practical tips on how to make it in a male-dominated workplace, here they are. No pigtails, no tube tops. Cry sparingly.
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If you ever start to feel good about yourself… …. they have this thing called the internet.
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Ah, babies! They’re more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts.
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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.
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This weight of embarrassment came over me, and I felt like I was sweating from my spine out. But I realized, ‘Okay, that happened, and I did not die.’ You’ve got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.
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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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Everybody kind of gets to be the person they didn’t get to be.
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You go through big chunks of time where you’re just thinking, ‘this is impossible – oh,this is impossible’. And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.
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So, my unsolicited advice to women in the workplace is this. When faced with sexism, or ageism, or lookism, or even really aggressive Buddhism, ask yourself the following question: “Is this person in between me and what I want to do?”
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Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.
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Start with a ‘Yes’, and see where that takes you.
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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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I was first in my class at Johns Hopkins, so?” Make statements, with your actions and your voice.
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Life is improvisation.
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