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

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" I took a class at The Second City, and it became contagious. "

" I started writing because I wasn't getting things as an actor. "

" 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. "

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

" It's not about having luck; it's about putting yourself in a position of luck. "

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

" '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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Tina Fey is my mentor, whether she likes it or not. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I started writing for myself because I know how to write for myself. I know how to show what I can do. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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? "

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