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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I was crazy poor, but I was learning and putting myself out there and getting hired to do whatever gig I could and auditioning. "

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

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