In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone “come out” to you is the “pretending to be surprised” part.
TINA FEYSo, 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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To say I’m an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair.
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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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When actors are too good-looking, I can’t memorize them. For example, I have never seen a picture of Sienna Miller where I didn’t say, “That girl’s pretty. Who is that?
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A wise friend once told me, ‘Don’t wear what fashion designers tell you to wear. Wear what they wear.’
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My standard answer is that I have the same struggle as any working parent but with the good fortune to be working at my dream job. Or sometimes I just hand them a juicy red apple I’ve poisoned in my working-mother witch cauldron and fly away.
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(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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There are no mistakes only opportunities.
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My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.
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When a coworker shows me cute pictures of her dog, I struggle to respond correctly, like an autistic person who has been taught to recognize human emotions from flash cards. In short, I am the worst.
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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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I am going to dedicate myself, full time, to my day-drinking.
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You can’t control things by being nervous.
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Everybody kind of gets to be the person they didn’t get to be.
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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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