I want every day to be the most boring news day ever. I want every day to be about spelling bee champions and baby basketball. It’s better to have no comedy material than a horrific news day.
TINA FEYYou 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.
More Tina Fey Quotes
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(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.)
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It’s the same reason I don’t get Hooters. Why do we need to enjoy chicken wings and boobies at the same time? Yes, they are a natural and beautiful part of the human experience. And so are boobies. But why at the same time?
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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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(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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Gay people don’t actually try to convert people. That’s Jehovah’s Witnesses you’re thinking of.
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Everybody kind of gets to be the person they didn’t get to be.
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I think someone should design exercise machines that reward people with sex at the end of their workouts, because people will perform superhuman feats for even the faint hope of that.
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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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Why are my arms so weak? It’s like I did that push-up last year for nothing!
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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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Even more amazing: not the worst review the movie got.
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Sometimes if you have a difficult decisin to make, just stall until the answer presents itself.
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My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.
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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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Start with a ‘Yes’, and see where that takes you.
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You go through big chunks of time where you’re just thinking, ‘this is impossible – oh,this is impossible’. And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.
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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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And I can see Russia from my house.
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Life is improvisation.
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I am constantly amazed by Tina Fey. And I am Tina Fey.
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I do like to start on time; I like to set the bar high for people.
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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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Now every girl is expected to have: Caucasian blue eyes, full Spanish lips, a classic button nose, hairless Asian skin with a California tan, a Jamaican dance hall ass, long Swedish legs, small Japanese feet, the abs of a lesbian gym owner, the hips of a nine-year-old boy.
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Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.
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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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Gravity”: “It’s the story of how George Clooney would rather float away into space and die then spend one more minute with a woman his own age.
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