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" Even if I wrote 'The Kay Cannon Show,' I would have to audition to play Kay Cannon. And I probably wouldn't get it. "
Kay Cannon
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" '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. "
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" You never imagine that the Green Bay Packers were going to be in something you wrote or singing 'Bootylicious.' "
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" I was a writer on '30 Rock' for six years. "
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" 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? "
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" Ultimately, I want to direct a movie, so that's another thing, too, where I wonder what that will look like and how will I be able to manage. "
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" When I was younger, I wanted my hair to look like Molly Ringwald's. "
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Hair
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" I wake up around seven, and I give my daughter breakfast. I spend the first hour or two of her day with her. "
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Daughter
Day
" Second City Las Vegas is very different from Second City in Chicago on the main stage, where they do improv sets. That's how they kind of hone material, kind of work up to new material. "
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Money
People
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People
Story
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College
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