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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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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" I started writing when I was trying to be an actor, and I happened to be friends with Tina Fey, who happened to have her show '30 Rock' coming out. So Tina, who happens to be a mentor to me, gave me my slot and hired me. "

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

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

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

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

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

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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 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. "

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

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

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