You’ve got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.
TINA FEYThis 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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I don’t like a tremendous amount of conflict. I don’t think that fighting and passion are the same thing.
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This week, penny collector Gene Sukie went to the bank and cashed in ten thousand pounds of pennies he had collected over 34 years, which were worth over fourteen thousand dollars. And, of course, I was in line behind him.
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Nothing is creepier than a bunch of adults being very quiet.
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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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Life is improvisation.
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To me YES, AND means don’t be afraid to contribute. Always make sure you’re adding something to the discussion. Your initiations are worthwhile.
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The arms of Michelle Obama, and doll tits. The person closest to actually achieving this look is Kim Kardashian, who, as we know, was made by Russian scientists to sabotage our athletes.
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Lesson learned? When people say, “You really, really must” do something, it means you don’t really have to. No one ever says, “You really, really must deliver the baby during labor.” When it’s true, it doesn’t need to be said.
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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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For my first show at ‘SNL’, I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn’t getting any laughs.
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Don’t be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable.
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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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Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.
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Maternity leave is over for Tina Fey of Saturday Night Live. She’ll be back behind the Weekend Update anchor desk for this week’s episode, her first show since giving birth to daughter Alice on Sept. 10.
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In real life, people in the most dire situations must cope through humor.
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