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You can’t control things by being nervous.

Tina Fey

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
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
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’m not that good looking… nobody is that good looking. I have seen a lot of movie stars, and maybe four are amazing looking. The rest have a team of gay guys who make it happen.
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Amazing Four Gay Good Look Lot Movie Nobody Seen Star Team
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
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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In Washington, officials from the National Rifle Association met with a group of high school students. There were no survivors.
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Asociation Country Funny High Humor Met National Official Rifle School Student
I want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities.
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Confidence Disproportionate Funny Look Parent Raise Thank
Don’t be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable.
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Anything Attach Lety Thing Write
You 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.”
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Literally Mother Nose One Pull Transition
I was a little excited but mostly blorft. “Blorft” is an adjective I just made up that means ‘Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum.’ I have been blorft every day for the past seven years.
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Adjective Blorfit Excite Little Mean Mostly Stress Witty
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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Book Dominate Mad Male People Practical Tip Woman Workplace
I think part of picking where you live in New York is accepting who you are. Really looking at yourself and going, ‘Yeah, I’m not cool enough for the West Village.’
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Accept Country Live Part Pick Think
(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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Children Moment Protest Time Uncles Witty
Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.
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Badass Being Care Like Thing Witty Yourself
Just say yes and you’ll figure it out afterwards.
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Afterward Figures Hate Saying Yes

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