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

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" 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. "

" Writers who sit down and write might judge what they're putting down, but I always just try to barf it out. I'm writing crap, but I'll put it down. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 'Pitch Perfect' was my first screenplay, so it was like my little baby. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" On the set of 'Girlboss,' I had to keep introducing myself as the show runner - literally, 'Hi, I'm the boss' - to a lot of my crew. My first AD said, 'Why do you keep doing that?' I said, 'Because I get mistaken for an extra.' "

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

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

" 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. "

" '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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We're big 'Game of Thrones' fans, so we call our house King's Landing. I have a studio apartment above our garage that we call Winterfell. I go to Winterfell to write. "

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

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