I had to get back to work, .. NBC has me under contract; the baby and I have only a verbal agreement.
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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Seriously, I’ve just realized that almost everyone is a fraud, so I try not to feel too bad about it.
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North Korea referred to The Interview as absolutely intolerable and a wanton act of terror.
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I think part of picking where you live in New York is accepting who you are. Really looking at yourself and going, ‘Yeah, I’m not cool enough for the West Village.’
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I am constantly amazed by Tina Fey. And I am Tina Fey.
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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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Not only is my wardrobe totally average, my body’s totally average. I love all the candy-fantasy fulfillment of Sex and the City.
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I hire people that are good, and aren’t crazy. Or assholes. Because that takes up too much time. There are just as many good people who are not crazy.
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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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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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There are no mistakes only opportunities.
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I feel like there is a lot of inherent humor in the stress and insanity surrounding that process.
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Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions… Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.
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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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People lose their minds, trying to prove their parental worth by getting their children into one of five colleges; when there are thousands of good colleges across the United States – and elsewhere.
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Obviously, as an adult I realize this girl-on-girl sabotage is the third worst kind of female behavior, right behind saying “like” all the time and leaving your baby in a dumpster.
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