Jill Abramson Quotes
Secrets don't stay secrets very long, even when journalists decide to censor themselves.
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You know, on the road, I never miss a meal. I eat five, six, seven times a day, depending on when I wake up and when I got to sleep. I never miss a training day. I always get my four days out of my seven.
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A lot of people asked me if it was frustrating not having a clear specific diagnosis, but I didn't mind, I just chose the most optimistic diagnosis.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.
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I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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The Olympics have their own unique atmosphere and energy. People might say it's just the same as any other competition, but don't kid yourself. There's a hunger for victory.
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Over the years, I've heard a lot of people who don't feel that they have it in them to do anything creative. They shrug and claim that they 'have no talent.' They say things like, 'Don't quit your day job' or 'Leave it to the professionals.' In the steampunk subculture, I don't hear those things.
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Let's abolish the IRS, let's eliminate income tax, let's eliminate corporate tax, let's balance the federal budget, and if we need a tax, it can be one federal consumption tax.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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I feel like I'm five sometimes because I still enjoy myself. I enjoy what I do.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Many are called but few get up.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.
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I went over to shoot for six days. It turned out to be ten days, very nicely so. A little money.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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Sometimes there are no good choices.
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I would hate to say as a non-African-American person that it would be wrong for a black person to direct white people in a movie. Wouldn't that be awful of me to say that? The only sympathizing thing I might say for people that want to [grumble] is that a filmmaker should have an understanding for the place where the people you're portraying are coming from.
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I call The National my family, and I'll be doing that as long as I want to.
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Given the long history of global anti-Semitism and continued calls for the destruction of Israel, it's tough to be a Jew.
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Sometimes you feel like it's cursed when something takes so long to come out and you don't know if it's going to really come out.
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Secrets don't stay secrets very long, even when journalists decide to censor themselves.
