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I want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities.

Tina Fey

You’ve got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.
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Experience Survive Sweating Understand
My standard answer is that I have the same struggle as any working parent but with the good fortune to be working at my dream job. Or sometimes I just hand them a juicy red apple I’ve poisoned in my working-mother witch cauldron and fly away.
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Answer Apple Cauldron Fortune Good Juicy Mother Parent Poison Same Standard Work
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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Audience Cress Down Funny Humor Lady Laugh Like Man Men Old Push Start
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.
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Back Bad Fan Pie Remember Think Thinking Weekend Well
There is no one of-woman-born who does not like Red Lobster cheddar biscuits. Anyone who claims otherwise is a liar and a Socialist.
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Biscuit Born Cheddar Doe Food Liars Like Lobster Red Women
An acting teacher once told me, ‘Greet everything with yes… Even if you abandon one idea for another one, saying yes allows you to move forward.’
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Acting Everything Motivation Moving Teacher Told Yes
Not only is my wardrobe totally average, my body’s totally average. I love all the candy-fantasy fulfillment of Sex and the City.
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Average Cities Sex Totally Wardrobe
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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Age Attempt Decision Easier History Myself Space Stories
(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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Cry Everyone never People Say Some Terrify
I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it’s only because I struggle with math.
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Again Crack Funny Inspirational Joke Like Math Struggle
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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Baby Learn Lesson Mean People Really Something Witty
People lose their minds, trying to prove their parental worth by getting their children into one of five colleges; when there are thousands of good colleges across the United States – and elsewhere.
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Children Country Elsewhere Mind Parent People Prove Thousand
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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Bills Inspirational Laugh Laughing Real Show Sketch Thought
When I turned 50, I looked in the mirror and I thought: “Hey, this isn’t the dress rehearsal, this is life and I don’t know how much longer I’m going to have!”
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Dress Dresses Fifty Hey Know Life Look Mirror Rehearsal Thought Turn
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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Amount Conflict Fight Fighting Like Passion Same Thing Think Thinking Tremendous
In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone “come out” to you is the “pretending to be surprised” part.
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Come Experience Hardest Out Pretending Someone Surprise

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