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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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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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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When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.
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And I think that it's - the military has actually made improvements, so people are considering post-traumatic stress disorder as, at the least, a possible psychological problem. You know, when I was in Vietnam, it was just considered malingering. And we're making progress.
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There's a vegan and gluten-free bakery called BabyCakes that I love. They've got shops in New York and Los Angeles. Their stuff is amazing.
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There is some big thing about the world that produced all these people willing to kill themselves just to hurt us. On 9/11 we learned we're part of that world, in the same completely crazy, drastic and arbitrary ways it hits other countries.
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I respect Gloria Steinem enormously. But I never wanted to be in any kind of movement - and if you're over a certain age, you better keep your bra on because nothing's worse than saggy duds.
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I don't have a favorite process. My favorite process is the right process for the person I am working with. I can fit in any process as long as the director respects who I am and doesn't try to put me in a situation to get something out of me - if I can give it without that situation.
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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.
