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Your characters should be as smart as you are, if not smarter.

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Tina Fey
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: May 18
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Upper Darby Township
Pennsylvania
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I had my hair in a ponytail and looked my trademark exhausted.
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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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My parents are very well-behaved. If anything, if my Mom were here right now, she would hug and kiss every one of you hello, and then she would feed you.
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You must not look in that mirror at your doughy legs and flat feet, for today is about dreams and illusions, and unfiltered natural daylight is the enemy of dreams.
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I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it's a little unseemly for women of a certain age.
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I am going to dedicate myself, full time, to my day-drinking.
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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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I'm not that good looking... nobody is that good looking. I have seen a lot of movie stars, and maybe four are amazing looking. The rest have a team of gay guys who make it happen.
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The comedy for the Democrats is that they're showing off too much. They need to be putting a boring white guy out there to kind of get a hold of things. Once the boring white guy is out there, then you bust out the junior senator from Illinois who smokes and does cocaine.
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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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Tracy: Stop eating people's old french fries, little pigeon. Have some self-respect. Don't you know you can fly?
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This is what I tell young women who ask me for career advice. People are going to try to trick you. To make you feel that you are in competition with one another. You're up for a promotion. If they go for a woman, it'll be between you and Barbara. Don't be fooled. You're not in competition with other women. You're in competition with everyone.
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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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Most of the time you're too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, 'I work at 'Saturday Night Live,' and that is so cool.
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Never tell a crazy person he’s crazy.
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My problem with the traditional acting method was that I never understood what you were supposed to be thinking about when you're onstage.
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This requires a level of delusion/egomania usually reserved for popes and drag queens
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My mom wanted me to apply to Princeton, cause she just I guess since I was a kid had this dream that I would apply to Princeton, and it was not happening.
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The person closest to actually achieving this look is Kim Kardashian, who, as we know, was made by Russian scientists to sabotage our athletes. Everyone else is struggling.
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The topic of working moms is a tap-dance recital in a minefield.
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