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" 'Bridesmaids,' I think, opened up a door to allow women to show a bunch of different women in different ways of being funny. It was kind of like an arrival moment. "

" Even if I wrote 'The Kay Cannon Show,' I would have to audition to play Kay Cannon. And I probably wouldn't get it. "

" Everything that makes us who we are is A-O.K. "

" 'Hot Pursuit,' 'Pitch Perfect 2,' 'Trainwreck,' and 'Spy' were all being done in the last year. All four of those movies I just mentioned are not rom-coms: they're all about women doing different things. "

" I didn't set out to write some female-empowering movie; I just wanted to write a funny college comedy. "

" I feel like the guilds are, just to be frank, people I pay money to. "

" I felt that a cappella was the improv world with music, where it's very serious, and there are groups and competition, and some people become famous, and there's a language we speak from one improviser to another. "

" I have to say, my husband is a big Patriots fan. Like, a huge Patriots fan. "

" I like it when adult straight men are big fans of 'Pitch Perfect!' "

" I loved all the people involved with '30 Rock.' "

" I love that feeling, that feeling of team. "

" I'm actually from a small town about an hour and a half south of Chicago. "

" I'm a huge fan of Ace of Base. 'The Sign?' I love that song. "

" I played volleyball and basketball, and I did track and volleyball in college. "

" I ran track in college. And that team, that all-lady team that I was on, I can remember just being so incredibly sad that I knew we were all going to leave each other after we graduated and that our lives would change. And even though I was the bridesmaid at all their weddings and stuff like that, it's just not the same, right? "

" I saturated myself with the improv community. "

" I started writing because I wasn't getting things as an actor. "

" I started writing for myself because I know how to write for myself. I know how to show what I can do. "

" I started writing when I was trying to be an actor, and I happened to be friends with Tina Fey, who happened to have her show '30 Rock' coming out. So Tina, who happens to be a mentor to me, gave me my slot and hired me. "

" I took a class at The Second City, and it became contagious. "

" It's interesting: when you're kind of 'known' for being a writer, people don't think you've done anything else. "

" It's not about having luck; it's about putting yourself in a position of luck. "

" I've got to literally write my own ticket. "

" I've seen 'Bring It On,' like, a thousand times. "

" I wake up around seven, and I give my daughter breakfast. I spend the first hour or two of her day with her. "

" I was an athlete, so I have kind of an athletic sensibility towards writing. I can work for many long hours without fatiguing. "

" I was auditioning a lot in L.A., and I was actually getting called back a lot for sitcoms. But I wasn't getting jobs. I even tested for 'Saturday Night Live' and didn't get that. "

" I was a writer on '30 Rock' for six years. "

" I was crazy poor, but I was learning and putting myself out there and getting hired to do whatever gig I could and auditioning. "

" I was in relays for track where you just bonded with all these different kinds of personalities who were coming together for this one common goal of beating a rival team. "

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