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.
TINA FEYTo me YES, AND means don’t be afraid to contribute. Always make sure you’re adding something to the discussion. Your initiations are worthwhile.
More Tina Fey Quotes
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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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Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue.
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If you ever start to feel good about yourself… …. they have this thing called the internet.
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Nothing is creepier than a bunch of adults being very quiet.
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Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.
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Life is improvisation.
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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.
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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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I feel like there is a lot of inherent humor in the stress and insanity surrounding that process.
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To say I’m an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair.
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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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My work is my work. I take my work seriously but I don’t take myself too seriously.
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Don’t be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable.
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Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion, just thinking foolishly that you will be able to do what you want to do
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It was reported that Guy Ritchie has cast his wife Madonna in a small walk-on role in his new movie, Revolver. Madonna will play the part of the woman who ruins the film.
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Even more amazing: not the worst review the movie got.
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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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Sometimes if you have a difficult decisin to make, just stall until the answer presents itself.
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There are a couple of things I want to impart to ladies who want to be in comedy: One, you don’t have to be weird or be quirky to get your job done. And two, comedy skill is not sexually transmittable.
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In an attempt to make things easier for myself, which is the basis for all of history’s worst decisions […].
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You’ve got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.
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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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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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In Washington, officials from the National Rifle Association met with a group of high school students. There were no survivors.
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You’re not in competition with other women. You’re in competition with everyone.
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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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