In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.
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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It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live TV.
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You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.
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Sometimes if you have a difficult decisin to make, just stall until the answer presents itself.
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Everybody kind of gets to be the person they didn’t get to be.
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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 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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To say I’m an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair.
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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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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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Nothing is creepier than a bunch of adults being very quiet.
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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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If the answer is no, ignore it and move on. Your energy is better used doing your work and outpacing people that way. Then, when you’re in charge, don’t hire the people who were jerky to you.
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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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This week, penny collector Gene Sukie went to the bank and cashed in ten thousand pounds of pennies he had collected over 34 years, which were worth over fourteen thousand dollars. And, of course, I was in line behind him.
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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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