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" I've got to literally write my own ticket. "
Kay Cannon
Write
Got
My Own
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" I started writing for myself because I know how to write for myself. I know how to show what I can do. "
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" I played volleyball and basketball, and I did track and volleyball in college. "
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" I was crazy poor, but I was learning and putting myself out there and getting hired to do whatever gig I could and auditioning. "
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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. "
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Tell
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Mind
" I've seen 'Bring It On,' like, a thousand times. "
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Seen
" I took a class at The Second City, and it became contagious. "
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Took
Contagious
" Society has this deeply rooted love of seeing women fail. "
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Love
Fail
Women
" 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. "
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Group
School
Person
" 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. "
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Writing
Rock
Friends
" 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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Work
Long
I Can
" We have a lot of depressed people in the world because they don't know what their purpose is in life. "
Kay Cannon
World
Life
Know
" 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. "
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Writing
Arm
Away
" '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. "
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Perfect
Hot
Done
" I'm a huge fan of Ace of Base. 'The Sign?' I love that song. "
Kay Cannon
I Love
Song
Sign
" I wake up around seven, and I give my daughter breakfast. I spend the first hour or two of her day with her. "
Kay Cannon
Breakfast
Daughter
Day
" I like it when adult straight men are big fans of 'Pitch Perfect!' "
Kay Cannon
Men
Big
Adult
" People try to make women a very specific thing so that we like them. "
Kay Cannon
Like
Women
Try
" 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. "
Kay Cannon
House
King
Apartment
" 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. "
Kay Cannon
Will
Like
I Wonder
" '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. "
Kay Cannon
Women
Think
Moment
" I love that feeling, that feeling of team. "
Kay Cannon
I Love
Feeling
Love
" 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. "
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Think
Rock
Her
" When I finished grad school, I moved to Chicago proper, and I was at all the different improv schools, taking classes or interning. "
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School
Improv
Chicago
" 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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Me
Trying
Look
" Everything that makes us who we are is A-O.K. "
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Makes
Who
Us
" 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. "
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Always
Down
Judge
" There's still only maybe three female writers or two female writers to 10 guys in any kind of writer's room. "
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Three
Room
Writer
" It's not about having luck; it's about putting yourself in a position of luck. "
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Position
Yourself
Having
" Tina Fey is my mentor, whether she likes it or not. "
Kay Cannon
Tina
She
Mentor