Abbi Jacobson Quotes

I feel like comedy had a boys'-club label when we were starting.

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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.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Heart
  • Best
  • motivation

• 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.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• 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.

  

  Rafael Yglesias
  • People
  • Time
  • Learn

• I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Party
  • Doubt
  • New Years

• 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.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Society

• In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Art
  • Experience

• 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.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Long
  • Character
  • Comedy

• How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Long
  • Book
  • Write

• 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.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Space

• There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • End

• 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.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Remember
  • Moment
  • Text

• 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.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Latin
  • Doors

• 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.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • School
  • Friends
  • Happy

• Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Different
  • You
  • Looking

• 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.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Day
  • Fighting
  • Hurt

• All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.

  

  Ed McMahon
  • Place
  • Caring
  • Surroundings

• 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.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Good
  • Writing

• I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • People
  • Know
  • Proud

• Some Sundays, I read it quickly - other Sundays, I savor it. I generally spend most of my time in 'The New York Times Book Review,' 'Sunday Business,' 'Sunday Review,' and 'The New York Times Magazine.' I turn all the other pages, only stopping when I find a headline that interests me.

  

  Brad Feld
  • Time
  • Business
  • Book

• Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable highlights.

  

  George Will
  • Passion
  • Absence
  • Censorship

• Yes, it's annoying that Hamlet doesn't kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, but if he did kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, there wouldn't be a play. He has to be annoying, if you will, and not do what would be the thing to do.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • You
  • Play
  • Will

• ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Movie
  • Working
  • Grief

• The female format is a beautiful one in which to function. Foolhardy as it may be. I change my image all the time, it's whatever suits me at the moment.

  

  Lydia Lunch
  • Time
  • May
  • Beautiful

• I feel like comedy had a boys'-club label when we were starting.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Comedy
  • Feel
  • Starting