Jill Abramson Quotes
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I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me of old Hollywood.
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It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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I don't have the kind of style that I feel like would serve any and everyone.
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When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.
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I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.
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The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.
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I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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When it comes to working out, I really don't like the gym. I go because I have to, but I'm usually not happy about it. I do what my trainer and coaches tell me to do, but I'm always anxious to get outside.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.
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When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
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We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is terrible! Let's laugh at her!' has become more culturally relevant than, 'I really love this new Bilal record.'
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It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about.
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Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas.
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I went into Guitar Center, and David Koresh and Steven Schneider were looking at a drum set, and they asked me to play it. They handed me their card, which said, 'Messiah Productions.' All this religious scripture was written on the back. The last thing I wanted was to join any kind of Christian band.
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I'd rather just be the girl who likes to eat a lot of food.
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I've been up in the Arctic Circle where they have hockey rinks that don't have any heating. So it's - 40 C outside, it's - 55 inside. Or there's a social centre but no budget for anybody to run any programs. Stuff we wouldn't accept in Winnipeg, but we let it go on and on and on.
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I've always got the itch to play. I don't like sitting out too long.
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I don't keep up with Twitter all day long.
