(My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word FARTING.)
TINA FEYYou can’t control things by being nervous.
More Tina Fey Quotes
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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.
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Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.
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You’ve got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.
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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 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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If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important Rule of Beauty. “Who cares?”
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You can’t control things by being nervous.
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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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It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live TV.
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Ah, babies! They’re more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts.
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Start with a ‘Yes’, and see where that takes you.
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I do like to start on time; I like to set the bar high for people.
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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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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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Photoshop is just like makeup. When it’s done well it looks great, and when it’s overdone you look like a crazy asshole.
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