Jill Abramson Quotes
I think that a great newspaper is one that puts a real premium on digging to get the story behind the story.
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'
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Prop 8 did something that no other state in the history of this country has done. It took away the rights of people that already were legally affirmed. Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.
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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
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To tell you the truth, I don't really follow what men wear. Men's fashion is much simpler than women's. It doesn't change as much.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.
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I really love all types of music. I'm really open to that. I really love Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake and some James Taylor and Elton John stuff.
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But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
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When I was in my late twenties, a friend suggested that, since I was an avid SF reader and had been since I was barely a teenager, that since it didn't look like the poetry was going where I wanted, I might try writing a science fiction story. I did, and the first story I ever wrote was 'The Great American Economy.'
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It can't be stressed enough that in order to produce great graphics, you have to have a good product and a good client capable of making decisions.
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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.
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To such a memorial as exists here we can only come in a spirit of humility and of gratitude. We can not hope to repay those whom we are assembled to honor. They were moved by a noble conception of human possibilities and human destiny. But we can undertake to find what was their inspiration and seek to make it our guide. By that they will be recompensed.
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I think that a great newspaper is one that puts a real premium on digging to get the story behind the story.
