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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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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I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
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Borders are liminal spaces. Anyone worthy of the title of 'writer' is a border writer. We all are border people.
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A book is either autobiography or a novel.
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I do endless chopping and preparing things. I really find that relaxing. I do a lot of thinking as I am chopping and cooking.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
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The seed for my novel 'Half Brother' was planted in my mind over twenty years ago, but didn't germinate until late 2007 when I came across the obituary for Washoe, an extraordinary chimpanzee who had learned over 250 words of American Sign Language.
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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.
