Jill Abramson Quotes

I do see myself as someone who has a lot of story ideas.

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• Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Want
  • Black
  • Blue

• There's no business like show business.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Business
  • Show Business

• May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

  

  Daniel Boone
  • War
  • Ambition
  • Monster

• Isolated and unincorporated, North Gulfport lacked a basic infrastructure: flooding and contaminated drinking water were frequent problems. Although finally incorporated in 1994 - not long after the arrival of the first casino - many of North Gulfport's streets still lack curbs, sidewalks, and gutters.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Long
  • Water
  • Problems

• All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Now
  • Ridiculous
  • Purity

• I haven't received any pressure to be anything other than myself, and for that, I am so grateful.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Pressure
  • Grateful

• Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Think
  • Action
  • First

• I like to believe that if you pay close attention to the sentences as they unfold, they will draw you in rather than pushing you away.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Believe
  • You
  • Attention

• Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Power
  • Black
  • Same

• Our greatest asset is the one we distrust the most: the built-in antifragility of certain risk-taking systems.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Risk

• The better the singer's voice is, the harder it is to believe what they're saying. So I turn my weaknesses into an advantage.

  

  David Byrne Talking Heads
  • Believe

• Bradlaugh makes the most noise, but the Irish Evictions Bill is much the most serious thing. ... If the Eviction Act passes, there will not be many more seasons. It is a revolutionary age and the chances are, that even you and I may live to see the final extinction of the great London Season, which was the wonder and admiration of our youth.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Great
  • Live
  • May

• I love working with Alexander Skarsgard. He brings such gravity to a scene.

  

  Nelsan Ellis

• Once upon a time, gatekeepers were newspaper publishers and magazine editors and people who ran radio stations and news networks. And they decided what went above the fold and what went on page A10.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • People
  • Time

• Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • World

• I see the staff and crew on the set as my equals. When I make a mistake, they know they can call my attention or even tell me what to do.

  

  Coco Martin
  • Attention
  • Mistake

• I have no business carrying myself like some diva.

  

  Sara Bareilles
  • Business

• When you start punishing and censoring comedians, that's a real bad sign of us as Americans losing our First Amendment rights. As a comedian, I'm gonna push the boundaries. Some things you're going to love, and some things you're going to hate. But this is America. Great people died for us to have this right.

  

  Byron Allen
  • People
  • Great
  • Real

• The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of the flying horse and the magic carpet.

  

  Igor Sikorsky
  • Men
  • Dream
  • Magic

• The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.

  

  John Sununu
  • Business
  • American

• Democracies die behind closed doors. . . . When government begins closing doors, it selectively controls information rightfully belonging to the people. Selective information is misinformation.

  

  Damon Keith
  • Government
  • Democracies
  • Selective

• It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent.

  

  Steve Buscemi
  • Play
  • Commit

• It is time for every one of us to roll up our sleeves and put ourselves at the top of our commitment list.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Commitment

• I do see myself as someone who has a lot of story ideas.

  

  Jill Abramson