Jill Abramson Quotes
I've pretty much stopped using a laptop because I'm not line-editing a lot of things anymore.
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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It's not easy to talk about things that are still hurting.
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We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
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What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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I am honoured to be associated with a brand like Movado. It believes in the art of design and is known for its perfection worldwide. I have strong faith in the pursuit of perfection. I am looking forward to a long association.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.
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I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
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I don't use the voice of Bart when I'm making love to my husband, but Marge's voice turns him on a little.
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Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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I have always believed that there is no such thing as coincidence, and I have always believed in destiny.
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Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
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I'm pretty athletic and I play basketball a lot.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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I couldn't believe it. It was unbelievable, that's why. My face was like a frozen fish finger. All rigid and pale. (But obviously not with breadcrumbs on it.)
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I've pretty much stopped using a laptop because I'm not line-editing a lot of things anymore.
