Jill Abramson Quotes
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Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
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I don't sleep enough, and it does... what is the opposite of wonders... horrors. It does horrors for my skin.
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Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.
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I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business.
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I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because you have to start from the past - your favourite architect, your favourite song - you take it all with you.
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The abortion industry can try to improve its 'messaging' all it wants. But unless abortion advocates change their devotion to abortion-on-demand, the only message Americans will receive is that the abortion industry is only really interested in improving its bottom line at the expense of the most defenseless among us.
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In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
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I'm very pessimistic.
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It's funny because a lot of people that know me as a dancer, don't know that I'm a singer, and a lot of people that know I can sing don't know I can dance. And so, I feel like at some point I have to show them both and really be able to display it and showcase it, and put that out there.
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You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman crying; it's not the character crying.
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My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a master's degree while raising them as a single parent. Now she's a brilliant second-grade teacher. I'm in awe of her ability to juggle everything and still be a great mother.
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There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.
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My movies are not messed with by the studios.
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When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo.
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I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.
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We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.
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Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.
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People love to talk about new and different. They don't always love to buy and read new and different.
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The flaw in the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus sings with a strong upper-class accent.
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When I was in eighth grade, I created a Backstreet Boys fan site. I came in third place in a fan site contest and got to meet them.
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I know when something is done and when it isn't. There's been times working on movies when they [moviemakers] lock in a release date and so you're stuck to that schedule. But sometimes you're still editing and you feel like you're not really done, but they're sort of releasing the movie anyway - that's kind of depressing.
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One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.
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If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.
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I think the Huffington Post has been inventive and presents what it aggregates well.
