Jill Abramson Quotes
I have an older sister who sounds, unfortunately, exactly like me, and we sound like our mother did.
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
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I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.
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The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
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When I approach guys in certain situations and talk to them about Christ, they know that I'm speaking to them in a way that's real.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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It's actually kind of cool that women have taken to me. Because now I have a whole different demographic when it comes to the audiences. I have women who come out and support my movies, and that is a huge demographic for me, which is great because some actors don't have a female base at all.
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I curate my T.V.-watching quite carefully.
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I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
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On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
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Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
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It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
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Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get answered. Because they have the internet. No matter what the question is, someone will answer their question.
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My relationship and the bond with the people in Montreal was kind of special and doesn't happen very often.
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What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.
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'Anne, my sister Anne, do you see nothing coming?''I see nothing but the sun that makes everything dusty, and the grass that grows green.'
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Mother never outgrows the burden of love, and to the end she carries the weight of hope for those she bore. Oddly, very oddly, she is forever surprised and even faintly wronged that her sons and daughters are just people, for many mothers hope and half expect that their new-born child will make the world better, will somehow be a redeemer. Perhaps they are right, and they can believe that the rare quality they glimpsed in the child is active in the burdened adult.
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My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.
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Freedom of speech isn't something somebody else gives you. That's something you give to yourself.
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I have an older sister who sounds, unfortunately, exactly like me, and we sound like our mother did.
