My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.
TINA FEYLesson 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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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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Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.
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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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In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone “come out” to you is the “pretending to be surprised” part.
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Life is improvisation.
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What Turning Forty Means to Me I need to take my pants off as soon as I get home. I didn’t used to have to do that. But now I do.
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Sometimes if you have a difficult decisin to make, just stall until the answer presents itself.
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An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women’s Affairs. Man, who’d she have to show here ankles to to get that job?
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When humor works, it works because it’s clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.
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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.
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I think someone should design exercise machines that reward people with sex at the end of their workouts, because people will perform superhuman feats for even the faint hope of that.
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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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If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important Rule of Beauty. “Who cares?”
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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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I am going to dedicate myself, full time, to my day-drinking.
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