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

~Kay Cannon

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

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When I finished grad school, I moved to Chicago proper, and I was at all the different improv schools, taking classes or interning.

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I was crazy poor, but I was learning and putting myself out there and getting hired to do whatever gig I could and auditioning.

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Second City Las Vegas is very different from Second City in Chicago on the main stage, where they do improv sets. That's how they kind of hone material, kind of work up to new material.

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

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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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I feel like the guilds are, just to be frank, people I pay money to.

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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.

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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