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.
TINA FEYIt is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food, but I don’t write articles trying to prove it doesn’t exist.
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You go through big chunks of time where you’re just thinking, ‘this is impossible – oh,this is impossible’. And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.
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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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Life is improvisation.
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You can’t control things by being nervous.
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There are a couple of things I want to impart to ladies who want to be in comedy: One, you don’t have to be weird or be quirky to get your job done. And two, comedy skill is not sexually transmittable.
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Nothing is creepier than a bunch of adults being very quiet.
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Just say yes and you’ll figure it out afterwards.
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I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it’s only because I struggle with math.
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Even more amazing: not the worst review the movie got.
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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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Gay people don’t actually try to convert people. That’s Jehovah’s Witnesses you’re thinking of.
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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 was first in my class at Johns Hopkins, so?” Make statements, with your actions and your voice.
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You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.
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You’ve got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.
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If you ever start to feel good about yourself… …. they have this thing called the internet.
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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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In an attempt to make things easier for myself, which is the basis for all of history’s worst decisions […].
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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 don’t like a tremendous amount of conflict. I don’t think that fighting and passion are the same thing.
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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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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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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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A wise friend once told me, ‘Don’t wear what fashion designers tell you to wear. Wear what they wear.’
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