Abigail McCarthy Quotes
[What she told herself before interviews:] I am the way I am; I look the way I look; I am my age.
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I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.
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A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
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The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.
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Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.
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Despite my so-so-experience with the iPhone, I do love its touchscreen technology, a feature I miss with my standard-issue BlackBerry.
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I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.
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When I see other working actresses that are brown, I get so excited. I get so excited when I see Zoe Kravitz, Janelle Monae, Taraji P. Henson, Ava Duvernay, and all these beautiful women working.
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I come from the small town of Sialkot in Pakistan. During pre-Partition, this town had the highest literacy rate among women.
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If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.
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Let's make Marco Rubio explain why he thinks oil companies should write our energy policy.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
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I've had my share of struggle. I believe, never take success to your head or failure to your heart.
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I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.
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You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.
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When I'm cooking for myself, I find that I eat almost completely vegetarian, although I'm not vegetarian.
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I always work on my abs, every single day. As Miss Universe, exercising your abdominal muscles is mandatory!
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The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.
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In the 1987 stock market crash, according to the conclusions of the official Brady report, colossal sales of stock index futures by so-called portfolio insurers - whose investment strategies depended entirely on these derivatives - greatly exacerbated the 500-point market decline.
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In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just 'disappeared' as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.
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It is vitally important that we implement immigration reform. We need a bill that strengthens our borders and protects this nation, but that also makes it simpler for good people to become Americans.
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[What she told herself before interviews:] I am the way I am; I look the way I look; I am my age.
