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

" 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. "

" '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 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "