“I called Amy [Poehler] and started crying. She was like, “What will you get paid, again?” I told her. At the time it was certainly the most we’d ever made. She just started laughing. “You’ve got to take the job,” she said. Then the ladies from Second City took me out to dinner at this awesome restaurant in Chicago called Wishbone. I got up from the table because I had to vomit from pure nerves. I’ve never had that before in my life.”

—Tina Fey on her reaction to being hired at SNL

“I'm not a mean person, but I have the capacity for it. I have the biting comment formed somewhere in the back of my head - like it's in captivity.”

—Tina Fey

“There is no such thing as a good fit that is uncomfortable. The good fit, which, as I have said, must be allied to cutting, must never have any appearance of strain anywhere, and it should look as relaxed as you feel.”

—Hardy Amies

“Some people would always rather be somewhere else. There “here” is never good enough. Through self-observation, find out if that is the case in your life. Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. ”

—Eckhart Tolle

“Try to acquire the weird practice of savouring your mistakes, delighting in uncovering the strange quirks that led you astray.”

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Daniel Dennet, Daniel Dennett’s seven tools for thinking

“None but ourselves can free our minds. ”

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“I find out a lot about myself by sleeping. Dreams, they are who I am when I’m too tired to be me.” ”

—Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale
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