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

" I wasn't, like, pretty enough to be the ingenue; I wasn't 'character' enough to be the goofball sidekick. I'm kind of ethnically ambiguous. "

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

" I would be writing while I was breastfeeding. I didn't want the computer to be too close to her, so it was at an arm's distance away while I was clickety-clack typing away. "

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

" '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. "

" There's still only maybe three female writers or two female writers to 10 guys in any kind of writer's room. "

" I was working at 'New Girl' when I found out there was going to be a 'Pitch' sequel. "

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

" You never imagine that the Green Bay Packers were going to be in something you wrote or singing 'Bootylicious.' "

" Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, they made it cool to be funny and to be embarrassed and to look a thousand different ways and show a bunch of different areas of their lives. "

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

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

" When I finished grad school, I moved to Chicago proper, and I was at all the different improv schools, taking classes or interning. "

" Tell your daughters and their daughters that if they want to be a firewoman, they can be a firewoman. If they want to be an astronaut, they can be an astronaut. If they want to run their own business or run for president, they can do whatever they put their mind to. "

" I was like, 'I have to start writing for myself, to show people what I can do and what my point of view is.' "

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

" No one ever actually said they were resistant because 'Pitch Perfect' was female-centric. When a project is sitting there for a while, you start to speculate about what could be the thing that might be a little tricky about it. "

" We have a lot of depressed people in the world because they don't know what their purpose is in life. "

" Tina Fey is my mentor, whether she likes it or not. "

" 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. "

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

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

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