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.’
TINA FEYMy 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.
More Tina Fey Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Photoshop is just like makeup. When it’s done well it looks great, and when it’s overdone you look like a crazy asshole.
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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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I have no affinity for animals. I don’t hate animals and I would never hurt an animal; I just don’t actively care about them.
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There is no one of-woman-born who does not like Red Lobster cheddar biscuits. Anyone who claims otherwise is a liar and a Socialist.
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I was first in my class at Johns Hopkins, so?” Make statements, with your actions and your voice.
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Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.
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It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live TV.
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I am going to dedicate myself, full time, to my day-drinking.
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Don’t be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable.
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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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To me YES, AND means don’t be afraid to contribute. Always make sure you’re adding something to the discussion. Your initiations are worthwhile.
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I am constantly amazed by Tina Fey. And I am Tina Fey.
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Read! When your baby is finally down for the night, pick up a juicy book like Eat, Pray, Love or Pride and Prejudice or my personal favorite,Understanding Sleep Disorders: Narcolepsy and Apnea.
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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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Just say yes and you’ll figure it out afterwards.
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I can’t possibly take time off for a second baby, unless I do, in which case that is nobody’s business and I’ll never regret it for a moment unless it ruins my life.
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Sometimes if you have a difficult decisin to make, just stall until the answer presents itself.
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Lesson 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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You’re not in competition with other women. You’re in competition with everyone.
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‘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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Thomas Jefferson-another gorgeous white boy who would not have been interested in me. This was my problem in a nutshell. To get some play in Charlottesville, you had to be either a Martha Jefferson or a Sally Hemings.
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