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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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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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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To do a comedy team, it requires so much extracurricular stuff, so much compromise, so much intuitiveness to know what the other guy is doing. That's why it's so hard to do it.
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I wanted to do a comedy. I'd been actively looking for a comedy. I wanted to do one that was different. Nothing against them, but I wasn't interested in just your normal sitcom, boy meets girl.
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This is going to be a very transparent Justice Department. But I'm not gonna sacrifice the safety of the American people or our ability to protect the American homeland.
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For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system.
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By kicking its carbon addiction, America will increase its national wealth and generate millions of jobs that can't be outsourced.
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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.
