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You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.
Tina Fey
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Tina Fey
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: May 18
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Your characters should be as smart as you are, if not smarter.
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I think women dress for other women to let them know what their deal is. Because if women were only dressing for men, there would be nothing but Victoria's Secret. There would be no Dior.
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I'm not a fan of purposely farting in front of other people. If you have to fart, leave the room.
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I really like John McCain. He's an awesome dude and was a lot of fun when he hosted SNL. I'd love to see a McCain-Giuliani rage ticket.
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You can't control things by being nervous.
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I can't believe you recently had a baby. How do you do it? The baby starts to come down...and once that happens you can't-it comes out. Whether you let it or not, the baby comes out. So that's how I did it.
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...nothing is creepier than a bunch of adults being very quiet.
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Yeah, it's tough being smart and sexy, too. I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date. I promise you it's true. My husband Jeff Richmond saw a diamond in the rough and took me in.
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I had a gentleman in college tell me, during a date, that I could be really pretty if I lost some weight. On a date!
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Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity.
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I learned quickly that trying to force Country Folk to love the Big City is like telling your gay cousin, You just haven't met the right girl yet.
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I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate to each other.
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You have to try your hardest to be at the top of your game and improve every joke you can until the last possible second, and then you have to let it go.
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The topic of working moms is a tap-dance recital in a minefield.
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I have two daughters, and we live here in Manhattan, and having gone through the Manhattan kindergarten application process, nothing will ever rival the stress of that.
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When I turned 50, I looked in the mirror and I thought: Hey, this isn't the dress rehearsal, this is life and I don't know how much longer I'm going to have!
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