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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Zephyr, with Aurora playing,As he met her once a-Maying.
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A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.
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I can only work between the hours of 8:30 and 4:30, because that's when the kids are at school. So I get to do all my work and have all of my fun in that time, which means just sitting on a chair, typing, alternately clicking between writing a column and being on Twitter, and smoking as many cigarettes as I can before my lungs give out.
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I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.
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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.
