Jill Abramson Quotes
The times I didn't get jobs I wanted, I remember feeling dispirited - really crestfallen.
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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Society becomes how we behave.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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I got married quite early. And then I had a son. I had a family. And this may be hard to believe, but I am a complete family kinda girl.
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I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.
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My dad met my mom at Casper College in the orientation line. He studied business and eventually transferred to the University of Wyoming at Laramie.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.
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When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.
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I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office.
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You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.
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I do not watch horror films. At all. I am not a horror film girl; I don't have the stomach for it. I've seen a few in my lifetime, like 'The Shining' or 'Carrie,' but I can't sleep for, like, a week after I see something like that.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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I've already fought my share. God gave me a rich, eventful career, and I thank God for everything, but I'm done fighting.
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I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
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I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities.
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If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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I remember the Neil Young brand hitting me very hard immediately. He wasn't an acquired taste. I loved him immediately.
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The times I didn't get jobs I wanted, I remember feeling dispirited - really crestfallen.
