Here are some good ones from a recent Esquire magazine (yeah, I’m still reading that– how do you pass up a $5 magazine subscription?? You just can’t, people..)
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My four-year-old daughter has a pretend hair-and-nail salon, and I was doing her hair and makeup. I said, “Hello ma’am. What’s your name? And what do you do?” And she said, “I get paid to dance at parties.” And I said, “Oh, no. That’s a terrible, terrible answer.”
Don’t be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable. For sketch writers, remember they’re called sketches for a reason. They’re not called oil paintings. Some of them are going to stink. You have to let them stink.
Tina does her thing
I benefit from the lack of curiosity in many areas. I’m like, “Nah, I’m good.” I don’t need to make out with ten people. I get it. I don’t need to smoke that. I get it. There’s no need to fake curiosity for something that’s probably not going to be good for you anyway.
and of course, the wisdom of…
I wrote a play when I was in Chicago–it was before I learned that plays had to have stories in them–and I wrote one about Catherine the Great. And she was lamenting the fact that she got bad press, and she said she did all these things, but then “you sleep with one horse and you’re a horsefucker for life.”
and…
I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it’s a little unseemly for women of a certain age. But then once you pass sixty-five, you can hit it full tilt again and it’s charming. Once you’re Lauren Bacall’s age, you can be like, “What the fuck.”
Lovely.
Tina Fey Is Wise
Here are some good ones from a recent Esquire magazine (yeah, I’m still reading that– how do you pass up a $5 magazine subscription?? You just can’t, people..)
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My four-year-old daughter has a pretend hair-and-nail salon, and I was doing her hair and makeup. I said, “Hello ma’am. What’s your name? And what do you do?” And she said, “I get paid to dance at parties.” And I said, “Oh, no. That’s a terrible, terrible answer.”
Don’t be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable. For sketch writers, remember they’re called sketches for a reason. They’re not called oil paintings. Some of them are going to stink. You have to let them stink.
Tina does her thing
I benefit from the lack of curiosity in many areas. I’m like, “Nah, I’m good.” I don’t need to make out with ten people. I get it. I don’t need to smoke that. I get it. There’s no need to fake curiosity for something that’s probably not going to be good for you anyway.
and of course, the wisdom of…
I wrote a play when I was in Chicago–it was before I learned that plays had to have stories in them–and I wrote one about Catherine the Great. And she was lamenting the fact that she got bad press, and she said she did all these things, but then “you sleep with one horse and you’re a horsefucker for life.”
and…
I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it’s a little unseemly for women of a certain age. But then once you pass sixty-five, you can hit it full tilt again and it’s charming. Once you’re Lauren Bacall’s age, you can be like, “What the fuck.”
Lovely.