Abbi Jacobson Quotes
We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that we were, in fact, actually doing comedy.
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People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier now than I've ever been but I still wish I had that money.
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I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.
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I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
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To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.
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I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.
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But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.
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As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.
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I'm still craving approval from my parents. It took a lot of success for me to realize it was never coming. It's just not in their nature.
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I think there is much more queer visibility than there was when I was a kid. There is marriage, more trans visibility, and many more celebrities who are open about the sexuality. This was so not the case when I was a kid.
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Anybody that's been through a divorce, and I hope it's something people never have to experience, it's the worse thing in the world.
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I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.
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We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that we were, in fact, actually doing comedy.
