I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date. Tina Fey More Quotes by Tina Fey More Quotes From Tina Fey Now if you're not „hot”, you are expected to work on it until you are. It's like when you renovate a house and you're legally required to leave just one of the original walls standing. If you don't have a good body you have down to a neutral shape, then bolt on some breast implants, replace your teeth, dye you hair, and call yourself the Playmate of the Year. How do we survive this? How do we teach our daughters and our gay sons that they are good enough the way they are? We have to lead by example. Tina Fey wall daughter son I love to play strippers and to imitate them. I love using that idea for comedy, but the idea of actually going there? I feel like we all need to be better than that. That industry needs to die, by all of us being a little bit better than that. Tina Fey play ideas needs I don't weigh myself. 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It's a dying art, in a way. Tina Fey dying art thinking I think my level of fame will drop back down. I think it’ll recede. In fact, I know it will. That’s life on planet earth. And I’m okay with that. Besides getting tables at restaurants and special treatment at the airport, what else is there? Tina Fey airports special thinking
