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I don’t like a tremendous amount of conflict. I don’t think that fighting and passion are the same thing.

Tina Fey

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
A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby’s temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who’s boss.
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Baby Boss Determine Medical Rectal School Study Thermometer Way
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
You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.
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Humor People Smart Tell Witty
‘How do you juggle it all?’ people constantly ask me, with an accusatory look in their eyes. ‘You’re screwing it all up, aren’t you?’ their eyes say.
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Accusatory All Ask Constant Dream Eye Job Juggle Look Mother People
My work is my work. I take my work seriously but I don’t take myself too seriously.
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Myself Seriously Take Work
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
It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live TV.
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Boring Overrated Perfect TV Witty
Just say yes and you’ll figure it out afterwards.
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Afterward Figures Hate Saying Yes
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
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
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
I think women dress for other women to let them know what their deal is. Because if women were only dressing for men, there would be nothing but Victoria’s Secret. There would be no Dior.
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Deal Hilarious Know Men Other Think Women
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 do like to start on time; I like to set the bar high for people.
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Bar High People Start Time

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