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

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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. "

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" Even if I wrote 'The Kay Cannon Show,' I would have to audition to play Kay Cannon. And I probably wouldn't get it. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" '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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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