Jill Abramson Quotes

I've taught a college journalism course at two universities where my students taught me more than I did them about how political news is consumed.

Jill Abramson

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• I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.

  

  B. B. King
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Inspiring

• I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • People
  • Write
  • Interested

• My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Nature

• I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Music
  • Try
  • Again

• My favourite outfit was this black lace dress that I found in a vintage shop in Williamsburg, New York.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Black
  • New York
  • Dress

• If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Money
  • Most
  • Arrested

• The perfection of art is to conceal art.

  

  Quintilian
  • Art
  • Perfection
  • Conceal

• You create your own material to try to get it out there because a lot of people are multi-hyphenates, to use the corporate term. You're creating stuff to be in in order to showcase all your talents. I think the idea of using YouTube and the Internet, you don't have to wait around for a network to buy your show.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Think
  • Internet

• I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Political

• I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Friends
  • Mother
  • Understand

• The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Giving
  • Picture
  • Key

• I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Goal
  • Senate
  • Emissions

• We all have our strengths and our failings.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Our
  • Strengths
  • Failings

• I had this little Bon Iver phase a few years back; 'Flume' was one of my favourite songs.

  

  Flume
  • Years
  • Back
  • Favourite

• If you're not in it you can't win it.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • You
  • Win

• People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Think
  • Television

• I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Women
  • Why
  • May

• I have an overactive brain, and as a result of that, I can really get in my own mind. So I like to try and exercise it to the point of exhaustion.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Mind
  • Brain
  • Exercise

• My wife's trying to get me into yoga, and it's gonna take me a while, but eventually I'm gonna have to.

  

  Jason Momoa
  • Trying
  • Wife
  • Yoga

• Every season challenges me to approach styling in a different way.

  

  Brad Goreski
  • Different

• American women mean a great deal to me. They're such lost souls, particularly the women of my generation. And women need so much help. They never have anyone to turn to. I help them understand how they can look better, how to do this, do that, get a job. And they're very trusting. Like little lost kids.

  

  Eileen Ford
  • Great
  • Women
  • Job

• The senior thesis of Hillary D. Rodham, Wellesley College class of 1969, has been speculated about, spun, analyzed, debated, criticized and defended. But rarely has it been read, because for the eight years of Bill Clinton's presidency it was locked away.

  

  Bill Dedman
  • College
  • Senior

• I've taught a college journalism course at two universities where my students taught me more than I did them about how political news is consumed.

  

  Jill Abramson
  • Political
  • College