Jill Abramson Quotes
You know, a dog can snap you out of any kind of bad mood that you're in faster than you can think of.
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When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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William Regal has been the most influential person in my entire career.
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The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.
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I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.
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I like that conventions want me to appear and festivals want me to come speak because they like the climate I attract. It's a good feeling.
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I don't think God cares a whole lot about the outcome. He cares about the people involved, but I don't think he's a big football fan.
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Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.
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My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.
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Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
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New Year's Eve was always a big occasion at home with the family. Every year we would get the karaoke machine out and I'd entertain everyone, even as a young kid.
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I always liked the story of Noah's Ark and the idea of starting anew by rescuing the things you like and leaving the rest behind.
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Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
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Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.
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A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. Worry upsets our whole system; work keeps it in health and order.
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The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues.
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I am not in Us Weekly. I'd have to be going out with someone who is in there to be in there myself.
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The sign of our time is that the dignity of the human personality has no place: the age is, as are its laws, impersonal, its heart as of stone... . Yet on arrest, in the name of these laws, we die like dogs, neither executioner nor victim making a sound. Because he has to gasp for air all his life, panting for breath is the man of today's only way out.
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I'm just really proud of the Democratic caucus. I look around in our meetings, and I think we really look like America.
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The thing that I always respected about Bruce Arians was, when he was at Pittsburgh, he let Ben Roethlisberger decide what he liked. I used to do that. You can put something in and force-feed it to a quarterback. But if he doesn't like it and have his heart in it, it's not going to be as good as when he really likes something.
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My parents, in their 40s, moved to a different country, started a business, bought a house, didn't speak the language, raised two kids - it's kind of amazing.
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You know, a dog can snap you out of any kind of bad mood that you're in faster than you can think of.
