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" 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. "

Kay Cannon

Look

Different

Cool

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Younger

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Perfect

Little

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" 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

I Wonder

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

Kay Cannon

Women

Try

" 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. "

Kay Cannon

Kind

Enough