Abbi Jacobson Quotes

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• Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Problems
  • Special
  • Everyone

• I love my family and I miss them very much but I'm a new person now. I know a lot of people will not agree with what I've done, but it was right for me.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Family
  • Love

• I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Enjoy
  • Shopping
  • Holiday

• Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Reality
  • Never
  • Plans

• The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.

  

  Gary Valentine
  • Work
  • Help
  • Trouble

• To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Singer
  • Heritage
  • Wales

• At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Grow
  • Flame

• Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Proud
  • End
  • Seeing

• I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • Believe
  • Way
  • Me

• When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Movie

• If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.

  

  Larry King
  • Mind
  • Friend
  • Doubt

• The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Relationship

• I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Want
  • Stage
  • Flow

• Everyone learns from their experiences.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Everyone
  • Experiences

• If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • People
  • Women
  • Suffering

• It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • You
  • Mirror
  • Rare

• I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead singer or the bass player.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Up
  • Always

• I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Want
  • Kind
  • End

• Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Experience
  • End
  • Fruit

• I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've been doing it physically - it's hard labour - throughout my life.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Life
  • Work
  • Done

• The journey of Marco Polo is the hero's journey, one that all cultures across the globe can relate to.

  

  John Fusco
  • Journey
  • Hero

• In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Good
  • Men
  • Live

• In any Christian view of life, self-fulfillment must never be permitted to become the controlling issue. The issue is service, the service of real people. The question is, 'How can I be most useful?', not, 'How can I feel most useful?'

  

  D. A. Carson
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• We love to start from a real place, whether it's us or our friends or working on a story from a writer's friend.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Real
  • Love
  • Friends