Jill Abramson Quotes
In one's relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.

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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
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Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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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.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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L.A. is a great place to write because you have a lot of space. I have a big office at home, I can leave the doors open. Flowers bloom all year. But it's unglamorous in all the right ways.
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I did live through Katrina and also Hurricane Rita, which hit Lake Charles. Interestingly, when Katrina hit, they evacuated and Lake Charles was one of the evacuation destinations. We opened up the civic center of the city to the evacuees and provided them free medical and psychiatric care there.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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MusiCares was really good to me. I can't say enough how MusiCares helps other people. They really, really helped me. They have the greatest groups and support for musicians in recovery.
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Bullies always have another target.
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The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.
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I started wearing high heels when I first worked with Mario Testino. He is tall; I had to be at his height. And I have never stopped since then.
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And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.
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Things are fluid in this world, and if you don't remain fluid, you get lost in the sauce.
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The mentality of how we treat one another needs to be examined - especially how we treat our men of color.
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Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.
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A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals.
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We have a very close relationship with Google. We extend our offerings to all the markets that we expand into.
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'Game of Thrones' is taking dense novels and trying to shrink it all down to a slightly manageable series in the sense that there are so many characters and so many locations.
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In fact, the world needs more nerds.
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In one's relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.