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

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

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

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

" When I was in college, I started an improv group, and I did a bunch of plays and some musicals. I have a theater degree. I'm a school person: I like getting homework and having deadlines. When I graduated, I worked right away as an actor. "

" On '30 Rock,' the hours were really intense, and I was often on set. I'm glad I didn't have a kid then because I don't think I would have ever seen her. I would work 15-hour days, and weekends, too. "

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

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

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

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

" When I was younger, I wanted my hair to look like Molly Ringwald's. "

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

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

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

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

" Society has this deeply rooted love of seeing women fail. "

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

" People try to make women a very specific thing so that we like them. "

" 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. "

" You just tell a good story where you're funny and it makes people laugh. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was the runt of the family, the shortest and the smallest, so I think they perceived me as the one who was like, 'Look at me!' - just trying to get their attention and being a goofball. "

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

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

" '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. "

" 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. "