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" I would love to be at a place where a girl character can also be a role model for young boys. "
Abbi Jacobson
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" I drew a lot. I always had sketchbooks. My parents were really great about any gift-giving holiday - birthdays, Hanukkah, Christmas - it was always art supplies for my brother and I. "
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" I really, really like interior design. I grew up in a really old house outside of Philly that was built in 1821. My mom is really into antiques, and my dad is very mid-century. They're not together anymore, so in the middle of growing up, I, all of the sudden, had two houses that were very different but really well done in each of their own ways. "
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" If people watch 'Broad City' very closely, we just drop lines about people we love, just to say we like them. "
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" Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her. "
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" You know all those young people watching Comedy Central love 'Frasier.' "
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" I definitely relate so much to a lot of women in comedy, but I don't love segregating the genders. I'm just as influenced by male comedians as I am female comedians. "
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" I'm from Philadelphia, and I go to Philly a bunch throughout the holidays, which is my only time to see my family, so we get pretty festive around that time of year. It's also the only time I have vacation. "
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" Art school can be a wonderful place if you're trying to find your voice and your style and your taste. "
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" I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest. "
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" I'm so thankful for that struggling period. That time is really great where you have no idea what's going to happen. "
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" What I love about comedy is that it's unquestionably working. There are varying degrees of that, where there's something that makes you smile and is funny versus something that makes you hysterically laugh. "
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" I definitely started to perform a little bit in middle school, but not the typical musical/play route. I think that I am funny, but it was more of a social thing, where that was my part in my circle of friends. "
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" When I lived in Baltimore, I would come down fairly often to go to the Hirshhorn, and one of my good friends from high school went to Georgetown. I actually ended up going to Annapolis a lot. I had a car, and it was such a serene place to drive. "
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" When I was in high school, my mom worked at Bed, Bath and Beyond, so I was always there. "
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" I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show. "
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" Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that? "
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