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.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • People
  • Work
  • God

• 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.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Up
  • Space
  • Astronomy

• 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.'

  

  J. Cole
  • Time
  • Why
  • Friends

• 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.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • People
  • High
  • Die

• Despite my so-so-experience with the iPhone, I do love its touchscreen technology, a feature I miss with my standard-issue BlackBerry.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Experience
  • Technology
  • Issue

• 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.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Believe
  • Home
  • Square

• 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.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Working

• I come from the small town of Sialkot in Pakistan. During pre-Partition, this town had the highest literacy rate among women.

  

  Umera Ahmad
  • Women
  • Small
  • Literacy

• 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.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Soul
  • Someone
  • Save

• It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Life
  • Odd
  • Playwright

• 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.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Music
  • Love
  • Dream

• You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Long
  • Think
  • Space

• When I'm cooking for myself, I find that I eat almost completely vegetarian, although I'm not vegetarian.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Myself
  • Find
  • Cooking

• I always work on my abs, every single day. As Miss Universe, exercising your abdominal muscles is mandatory!

  

  Gabriela Isler
  • Work
  • Single
  • Day

• 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.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • People
  • Great
  • Movie

• Death is a monster; death is horrible.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Death
  • Monster
  • Horrible

• Anna Katherine Green wrote about a female inquiry agent, and there were a scattering of female investigators in the 1970s, authored by men, who just didn't ring true. So I thought, 'Well, there's an opening here for something.'

  

  Marcia Muller
  • Men
  • True
  • Green

• I was a little truth seeker as a child. I wanted more than anything to understand myself and also other people.

  

  Cynthia Kenyon
  • People
  • Truth

• Oh look! There it is! Look! Look! It's the local erotic shop!

  

  Ben Gillies Silverchair
  • Look
  • Erotic Shop

• I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • People
  • Help
  • Vision

• At night if I'm in a hurry, I'll just put on a lot of mascara and black pencil all the way around the inner rim. It's a totally sexy eye in a minute and a half.

  

  Brooke Burns
  • Night
  • Black
  • Sexy

• [What she told herself before interviews:] I am the way I am; I look the way I look; I am my age.

  

  Abigail McCarthy
  • Age
  • Look
  • Interviews