Abbi Jacobson Quotes
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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I write in a small office at home.
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Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage.
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In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.
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What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.
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I'd feel guilty just doing gags.
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The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.
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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
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You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.
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I try to keep myself as normal as possible. Stardom is transient. People forget you after a while.
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When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
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I hardly ever go to the movies.
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Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.
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I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.
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I expect most psychiatrists have a patient or two they'd like to refer to me.
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Life's too short and too complicated for people behind desks, people behind masks to be ruining other people's lives, initiating force against other people's lives on the basis of their income, their color, their class, their religious beliefs, whatever.
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You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions. When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.
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I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.
