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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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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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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I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
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I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.
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I do try to shop online and support people who hand-make their stuff, and because you can find stuff that nobody else has.
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So-called 'realist' photography does not capture the 'what is.' Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for example.
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If a role demands in a good project, I wouldn't mind wearing a bikini.
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I don't think some athletes understand how big it is to be an athlete, what they can do with just a simple gesture of shaking a kid's hand. It can make a fan's day. It can make a fan's life.
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The first long chapter of my career was almost entirely theater so that, by the time I was 30, 35, I sort of knew who I was as an actor, and I was gradually learning who I was as a human being.
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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.
