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- [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
- 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
- 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
- Under the greenwood tree who loves to lie with me ... Here shall he see no enemy but winter and rough weather.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), As You Like It, Act II, sc. 5
- Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Mark Twain's Notebook, 1935
- If only corporal punishment cured low self-esteem.
- Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, She's A Bit of A Pout, author's note, 08-31-11
- Ah, sweet alcohol. Like a true friend, you replace the anger with better, louder anger.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 08-23-11
- Destiny is for people who are too lazy to create alternate timelines.
- R. Stevens, Diesel Sweeties, 10-05-11
- That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), A Farewell to Arms, 1929
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