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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. "
Kay Cannon
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King
Apartment
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" 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. "
Kay Cannon
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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" 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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Down
Judge
" Everything that makes us who we are is A-O.K. "
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Who
Us
" 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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Like
Kind
Enough
" I'm actually from a small town about an hour and a half south of Chicago. "
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Chicago
Small
Half
" I've seen 'Bring It On,' like, a thousand times. "
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Seen
" I was auditioning a lot in L.A., and I was actually getting called back a lot for sitcoms. But I wasn't getting jobs. I even tested for 'Saturday Night Live' and didn't get that. "
Kay Cannon
Night
Saturday
Get
" '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. "
Kay Cannon
Perfect
Hot
Done
" 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. "
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Will
Like
I Wonder
" I was like, 'I have to start writing for myself, to show people what I can do and what my point of view is.' "
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Writing
People
Start
" People try to make women a very specific thing so that we like them. "
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Women
Try
" I like it when adult straight men are big fans of 'Pitch Perfect!' "
Kay Cannon
Men
Big
Adult
" 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
Business
Mind
" It's interesting: when you're kind of 'known' for being a writer, people don't think you've done anything else. "
Kay Cannon
People
Think
Done
" You just tell a good story where you're funny and it makes people laugh. "
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People
Story
Funny
" I took a class at The Second City, and it became contagious. "
Kay Cannon
Class
Took
Contagious
" 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
" 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. "
Kay Cannon
Sitting
Start
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. "
Kay Cannon
Myself
Crazy
Whatever
" 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. "
Kay Cannon
Speak
World
Competition
" 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
" I've got to literally write my own ticket. "
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Write
Got
My Own
" 'Pitch Perfect' was my first screenplay, so it was like my little baby. "
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Perfect
Little
Like
" Tina Fey is my mentor, whether she likes it or not. "
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Tina
She
Mentor
" You never imagine that the Green Bay Packers were going to be in something you wrote or singing 'Bootylicious.' "
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Green
You
Singing
" I didn't set out to write some female-empowering movie; I just wanted to write a funny college comedy. "
Kay Cannon
College
Just
Funny
" I loved all the people involved with '30 Rock.' "
Kay Cannon
Involved
Rock
People
" 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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Her
" I ran track in college. And that team, that all-lady team that I was on, I can remember just being so incredibly sad that I knew we were all going to leave each other after we graduated and that our lives would change. And even though I was the bridesmaid at all their weddings and stuff like that, it's just not the same, right? "
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Team
Change
College