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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.
Tina FeyTina Fey 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.
Tina FeyTina Fey Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue.
Tina FeyTina Fey I got a fan letter on the back of a prison menu. And I remember thinking, ‘Well, they get pie. It’s not so bad. They get pie on the weekends.’ I want to say blueberry and also a Boston cream pie. Not so bad.
Tina FeyTina Fey When humor works, it works because it’s clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.
Tina FeyTina Fey 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.
Tina FeyTina Fey 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
Tina FeyTina Fey 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?
Tina FeyTina Fey An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women’s Affairs. Man, who’d she have to show here ankles to to get that job?
Tina FeyTina Fey I’m not that good looking… nobody is that good looking. I have seen a lot of movie stars, and maybe four are amazing looking. The rest have a team of gay guys who make it happen.
Tina FeyTina Fey (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.)
Tina FeyTina Fey 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.
Tina FeyTina Fey 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.
Tina FeyTina Fey Photoshop is just like makeup. When it’s done well it looks great, and when it’s overdone you look like a crazy asshole.
Tina FeyTina Fey I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it’s only because I struggle with math.
Tina FeyTina Fey Every kid has something they’re good at, that you hope they find and gravitate toward.
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People who don’t know how to love you are always going to hurt your heart.
H. DcostaH. Dcosta I no longer seek the love I think I deserve but rather the love I’ve always deserved.
Ava NicoleAva Nicole There is no such thing as a good investment.
Manish KhuntetaManish Khunteta Without you, I’m lost.
Amanda KarchAmanda Karch I did everything I could to make it work I was casting nets into the ocean and all they were doing was returning back empty.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados We flew to heaven, and we touched the sun.
Jennifer JulietteJennifer Juliette You told me everything would be okay. I wish you had said – you’ll hurt but I’ll hold you.
Ullie KayeUllie Kaye Be brave, be bold, beware that you must believe before becoming.
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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Alan WattsAlan Watts We confuse money with actual wealth.
Alan WattsAlan Watts Isn’t it cool when the days that are supposed to feel good, actually do?
Jim CarreyJim Carrey It’s tougher to be vulnerable than to actually be tough.
RihannaRihanna Dreams feel real while we’re in them. It’s only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.
Leonardo DiCaprioLeonardo DiCaprio Since life is an ever evolving process, one should flow in this process and discover how to actualize and expand oneself.
Bruce LeeBruce Lee When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living.
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