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- In most pursuits, one's self is one of the biggest hurdles to get over. You can't pursue something and be committed to it if you're apologizing for it at every party.
- Lisa Kudrow, Vasser Commencement Address, 2010
- You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.
- Lisa Kudrow, Vasser Commencement Address, 2010
- [Detractors] are just wrong, and that's okay. They just don't see it yet. That's what I would tell myself to keep those moments of doubt, only moments.
- Lisa Kudrow, Vasser Commencement Address, 2010
- Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.
- Susan Rice, Stanford University Commencement, 2010
- If you ever start to feel too good about yourself, they have this thing called the Internet, and you can find a lot of people there who don't like you.
- Tina Fey, Golden Globes Acceptance Speech, 2009
- 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.
- Tina Fey, ABC-TV World News Now
- It's harder to make something good when you can't curse all the time.
- Tina Fey, Max 60 Seconds, 2008
- You can be a little bit darker and rougher on the stage, partly because when you're in the theater, people have come to see you, and so they kind of know what they're in for. In television, you are sort of sneaking into people's homes. So, I think you can be a little bit darker on stage.
- Tina Fey, Interview from Second City, 2008
- There is no good lighting that is healthy and for our well being without proper darkness.
- Roger van der Heide, TED: Why light neds darkness
- There is no good lighting that is healthy and for our well being without proper darkness.
- Roger van der Heide, TED: Why Light Needs Darkness, 2011
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