Tina Fey on fighting
Tina Fey110 quotes“I don’t like a tremendous amount of conflict. I don’t think that fighting and passion are the same thing.”
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Tina FeyTina Fey This weight of embarrassment came over me, and I felt like I was sweating from my spine out. But I realized, ‘Okay, that happened, and I did not die.’ You’ve got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.
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Tina FeyTina Fey My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.
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