I was first in my class at Johns Hopkins, so?” Make statements, with your actions and your voice.
TINA FEYNothing is creepier than a bunch of adults being very quiet.
More Tina Fey Quotes
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Maternity leave is over for Tina Fey of Saturday Night Live. She’ll be back behind the Weekend Update anchor desk for this week’s episode, her first show since giving birth to daughter Alice on Sept. 10.
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It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live TV.
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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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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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MAKE STATEMENTS also applies to us women: Speak in statements instead of apologetic questions. No one wants to go to a doctor who says, “I’m going to be your surgeon? I’m here to talk to you about your procedure?
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Gay people don’t actually try to convert people. That’s Jehovah’s Witnesses you’re thinking of.
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Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.
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You’re not in competition with other women. You’re in competition with everyone.
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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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There are a couple of things I want to impart to ladies who want to be in comedy: One, you don’t have to be weird or be quirky to get your job done. And two, comedy skill is not sexually transmittable.
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Life is improvisation.
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Don’t be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable.
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I have no affinity for animals. I don’t hate animals and I would never hurt an animal; I just don’t actively care about them.
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So, my unsolicited advice to women in the workplace is this. When faced with sexism, or ageism, or lookism, or even really aggressive Buddhism, ask yourself the following question: “Is this person in between me and what I want to do?”
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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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