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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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In response to the escalating violence in Iraq, President Bush is delaying the return home of 25,000 troops and will actually add reinforcements to the south. Then in a symbolic gesture he pulled down the mission accomplished banner, put on a flight suit, walked backwards to a jet fighter and flew it in reverse off an aircraft carrier.
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When actors are too good-looking, I can’t memorize them. For example, I have never seen a picture of Sienna Miller where I didn’t say, “That girl’s pretty. Who is that?
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(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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If you want to be a screenwriter, take an acting class to get a sense of what you're asking actors to do. Learning other skills will help you communicate with people and respect what they do.
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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. You do not have to sleep with a comedian to learn what you’re doing. Male comedians will not like that advice, but it is the truth.
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Steve Carell's Foxcatcher look took two hours to put on, including his hairstyling and make up. Just for comparison, it took me three hours today to prepare for my role as human woman.
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The ideal situation for a parent is one that no one has - having a fulfilling job that requires you to work three days a week. It's better for the parents, because they get to spend time with the children and also have a source of pride and achievement - and income - outside the home.
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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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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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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.'
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It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live TV.
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Amy Poehler and I have been friends for so long, we're like Oprah and Gale. Only we're not denying anything.
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Wafah Dufour bin Laden, niece of Osama bin Laden has signed a contract to star in a reality show... called Skating with the Nieces of Terrorists.
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If you ever start to feel good about yourself... .... they have this thing called the internet.
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The thing that always fascinated me about improv is that it's basically a happy accident that you think you're initiating.
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Television is a runaway train that you have to get on for nine months of the year. But at the same time, it has a wonderful immediacy.
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My parents raised me that you never ask people about their reproductive plans. “You don’t know their situation,” my mom would say. I considered it such an impolite question that for years I didn’t even ask myself. Thirty-five turned into forty faster than McDonald’s food turns into cold nonfood.
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In real life, people in the most dire situations must cope through humor.
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Every kid has something they're good at, that you hope they find and gravitate toward.
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The ladies of comedy now are comfortable dressing up. It's not forbidden anymore.
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