Jill Abramson Quotes
I have to pay attention to work on the weekends and always have my iPhone with me, but I don't mind.
Quotes to Explore
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
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Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.
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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
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When the show's in production, we work for three weeks at a time and then take a week off.
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At the end of the day, I'm an artist. I may make work and decide to do something political, but it will come out of an artist's position. It won't come out of society telling me I have to. If I do, it's because I choose, as an artist, to do it.
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Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food, Nothing to wear out but clothes, To keep one from going nude.
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In the documentary 'Facing Ali,' nearly half the fighters involved required subtitles despite speaking English, their speech slurred by the physical toll of their ring lives. This was their reward for testing their furthermost physical and mental boundaries.
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Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.
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I have to pay attention to work on the weekends and always have my iPhone with me, but I don't mind.
