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.
TINA FEYI want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities.
More Tina Fey Quotes
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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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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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I am going to dedicate myself, full time, to my day-drinking.
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Don’t be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable.
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If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important Rule of Beauty. “Who cares?”
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When actors are too good-looking, I can’t memorize them. For example, I have never seen a picture of Sienna Miller where I didn’t say, “That girl’s pretty. Who is that?
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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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Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue.
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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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You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.
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A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby’s temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who’s boss.
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Thomas Jefferson-another gorgeous white boy who would not have been interested in me. This was my problem in a nutshell. To get some play in Charlottesville, you had to be either a Martha Jefferson or a Sally Hemings.
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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.
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Everybody kind of gets to be the person they didn’t get to be.
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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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