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I basically lived like a guy for, certainly, the first decade of my career, and I just wanted to blend in.

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When you start a memoir, you think, 'I'm going to blast all the people who were mean to me.' And then you start writing, and you go, actually, it's so much more fun to say nice things about people who were kind and generous to you.

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The more successful you are as a man, the more you're liked. And the more successful you are as a woman, the more you're disliked.

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We have so many great memoirs from women in front of the camera, from Tina Fey, Mindy Kaling, Amy Poehler, and Amy Schumer.

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You want a diverse writers' room, not because it's the fair thing to do or the right thing to do, but because it's the best thing to do for your show. I've seen that to be true.

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People say, 'Dress for the job you want,' and since I wanted a job that guys had, I dressed like a guy.

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I think empathy is undervalued in a lot of these comedy writers' rooms.

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The average career span for a TV writer is 11 years. The only other thing I could find that had the same career span was a police dog.

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In Hollywood, you kind of trick yourself into feeling like you have impact.

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The vocabulary of my cynical world doesn't allow me to explain the success of 'Lean In.'

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: November 8th, 1960

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