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"It happens to everyone. But for Jenny Slate, star of Obvious Child, out now, it happened on live TV. Here&amp;#x27;s how she got over it&amp;amp;mdash;and came back strong. I had dreamed of being on Saturday Night Live, so when I got cast in 2009, I was so happy. But it felt like an explosion when I accidentally said &amp;quot;f--k&amp;quot; on live TV during my very first sketch. After it happened, [SNL creator] Lorne Michaels wanted to make sure I was OK because he knew I was scared&amp;amp;mdash;I had never been exposed so publicly. The aftermath was hard; people tweeted that I was &amp;quot;ugly&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;not funny,&amp;quot; and it really stung. But even in those awful moments, I always tried to find a little bit of pleasure: I was still alive. I liked my lunch. Lorne and I never talked when I was fired at the end of the season; I got the news online. I&amp;#x27;ve still never watched the clip of my f--k-up. That&amp;#x27;d be like watching yourself fall down the aisle at your wedding! I feel like it happened to somebody else, and I want to tell her, &amp;quot;Oh, girl. I&amp;#x27;m so sorry, but you need to move on.&amp;quot; If you ever fall on your face at work, I want you to remember: It&amp;#x27;s just one moment in time. It&amp;#x27;s one moment in a long life, and it&amp;#x27;s important to get up again. I&amp;#x27;m no expert, but here&amp;#x27;s what you could do. GO AHEAD AND WALLOW... JUST A BIT When I was fired, I ordered 50 million pizzas and invited all of my friends over. It&amp;#x27;s important to let yourself go through all the emotions. But if you start seeing yourself as a victim rather than as all of the other amazing things you could be, it&amp;#x27;s time to snap out of it. It took me a few years to get back to myself; I developed stage fright, so I went to a hypnotist. But quiet contemplation isn&amp;#x27;t all it takes to get you through a screwup. Join a meditation group; go on vacation. Do something. (Just don&amp;#x27;t become an alcoholic.) BE NICE TO YOURSELF It&amp;#x27;s your job not to make things any worse for yourself than they already are. If you can&amp;#x27;t pick yourself off the floor first, no one will be able to help you. USE THE BUDDY SYSTEM That said, you need someone in your corner who doesn&amp;#x27;t work with you. My husband was there for me the whole time, which was beautiful because it&amp;#x27;s really hard to see someone you love beat herself up every day. KEEP SOME PERSPECTIVE I&amp;#x27;m the girl who wanted to get an A in school and had never been fired before. It&amp;#x27;s embarrassing to be fired publicly. Rejection is hard! That&amp;#x27;s a normal human response. But there are a lot of people who do terrible things, and I know I&amp;#x27;m not one of them. Everything Ann Coulter says on TV is a billion times worse than any swearword I&amp;#x27;ve ever said. Remember, one day we&amp;#x27;ll all be 81 years old and not give a sh-t about the mistakes we made. OWN YOUR TALENTS It&amp;#x27;s easy to feel that your job is the only thing that matters, but get out of that mind-set. After my mistake, I thought I didn&amp;#x27;t have the right to be creative anymore, but my husband told me, &amp;quot;You were creative before, and you&amp;#x27;ll be creative after&amp;amp;mdash;it&amp;#x27;s in your nature.&amp;quot; He was right. That&amp;#x27;s when we created Marcel the Shell [the character that launched 30 million YouTube hits and a book deal], and now I&amp;#x27;m in every scene of a movie. I always wanted to be a movie actress, have a female body, and own lots of purses. Now that&amp;#x27;s really happening!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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