Abbi Jacobson Quotes
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In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.
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The whole world has American dreams. This country has people from all parts of the world. We have Irish who live here, we have Brazilians.
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Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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Not long after 'The Pacific,' I began shooting the comedy 'Larry Crowne,' which was also with Tom Hanks, who also directed and plays the title character.
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How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.
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Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
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There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
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Remember daydreams? No, of course you don't. How could you? Three new text messages have just arrived, and another three, in a moment, will go out.
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Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.
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I still have my school friends who are actually friends. It's nice that they don't think much about my singing career. They think it is cool, and they are happy for me, but they don't really bother me about it. To them, I'm still just the schoolgirl from next door.
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Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually.
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Guys play basketball and get hurt, and that's probably the easiest sport on the planet. We're actually fighting every day. We're wrestling; we're grappling.
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All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.
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You've got to be a certain type of person to be a professional fighter. I prefer to do it for pretend.
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The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.
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However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.
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Nuclear accidents anywhere can affect people everywhere.
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My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood.
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I feel like comedy had a boys'-club label when we were starting.
