Everybody kind of gets to be the person they didn’t get to be.
TINA FEYYou transition as a mother from literally just pulling a booger out of that person’s nose whenever you see one until at some point they assert: “No, I’m a person. You can’t fix my underpants on the subway.”
More Tina Fey Quotes
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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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If you ever start to feel good about yourself… …. they have this thing called the internet.
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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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Even more amazing: not the worst review the movie got.
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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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When humor works, it works because it’s clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.
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It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live TV.
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‘How do you juggle it all?’ people constantly ask me, with an accusatory look in their eyes. ‘You’re screwing it all up, aren’t you?’ their eyes say.
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It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food, but I don’t write articles trying to prove it doesn’t exist.
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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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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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(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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Sometimes if you have a difficult decisin to make, just stall until the answer presents itself.
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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.
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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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