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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

Tina Fey

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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Don’t be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable.
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Anything Attach Lety Thing Write
If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.
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Sometimes you want to have a very productive Saturday to feel that you are in control of your life, which of course you are not.
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Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.
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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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Ability Acne Anxiety Chin Good Turn Witty
(My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word FARTING.)
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When a man plays a woman in a dress, you’re halfway there. It’s inherently funny. When a woman plays a man, for whatever reason, it’s not that instant kind of funny.
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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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Asshole Crazy Good Much People Take Time
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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I prefer the retro chic of spending Christmas just like Joseph and Mary did – Traveling arduously back to the place of your birth to be counted, with no guarantee of a bed when you get there.
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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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Even more amazing: not the worst review the movie got.
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Amaze Even Got More Movie Review Worst
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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Book Dominate Mad Male People Practical Tip Woman Workplace
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 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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Baby Basketball Boring Champion Every Most News Spell

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