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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.

Tina Fey

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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Adjective Blorfit Excite Little Mean Mostly Stress Witty
Read! 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.
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Baby Book Down Husband Love Pick Pray Prejudice Pride Right
What Turning Forty Means to Me I need to take my pants off as soon as I get home. I didn’t used to have to do that. But now I do.
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Fort Home Mean Need Pant Soon Take Turn Women
I prefer the retro chic of spending Christmas just like Joseph and Mary did – Traveling arduously back to the place of your birth to be counted, with no guarantee of a bed when you get there.
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Bed Birth Chic Christmas Guarantee People Prefer Retro Spend
Everybody kind of gets to be the person they didn’t get to be.
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Everybody Get Kind Person Prison
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
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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Affinity Animal Cute Dog Hurt never
Seriously, I’ve just realized that almost everyone is a fraud, so I try not to feel too bad about it.
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Bad Ecveryonbe Feel Fraud Realize Trying
My work is my work. I take my work seriously but I don’t take myself too seriously.
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Myself Seriously Take Work
And I can see Russia from my house.
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Country House Live Saturday Night
(My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word FARTING.)
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Children Moment Protest Time Uncles Witty
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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According Cardiovascular Develop Disease Funny Marriage Less Lonely Marriage Satisfying Study Women Worry
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
You do not have to sleep with a comedian to learn what you’re doing. Male comedians will not like that advice, but it is the truth.
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Advice Comedian Doing Learn Male Truth
If the answer is no, ignore it and move on. Your energy is better used doing your work and outpacing people that way. Then, when you’re in charge, don’t hire the people who were jerky to you.
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Answer Better Energy Ignore Jerky Nove Outpace People Way
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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Book Dominate Mad Male People Practical Tip Woman Workplace

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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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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