Jill Abramson Quotes
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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
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There's no business like show business.
Irving Berlin
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As long as my family's OK, I'll be fine.
Manti Te'o
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May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!
Daniel Boone
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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
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All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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I haven't received any pressure to be anything other than myself, and for that, I am so grateful.
Halima Aden
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Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.
Barbara Deming
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I'm terrible in high heels. I'm so bad.
Lara Stone
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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
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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
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Our greatest asset is the one we distrust the most: the built-in antifragility of certain risk-taking systems.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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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
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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
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I love working with Alexander Skarsgard. He brings such gravity to a scene.
Nelsan Ellis
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It's always fun to try non-traditional athletic wear with cutouts and fun textures.
Hannah Bronfman
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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
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Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.
Paulo Coelho
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Music is like film to me.
The Weeknd
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You'd have to walk a thousand miles in my shoes just to see what its like to be me!!
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
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Persistence only proves persistence-it does not prove love. The fact that a romantic pursuer is relentless doesn't mean you are special-it means he is troubled.
Gavin de Becker
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"...The large majority of those infectious microbes that cause us so much illness and pain are ANAEROBIC...a big word that means they live and proliferate best in environments where there is LITTLE OR NO OXYGEN."
Ed McCabe
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I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies. Music is still okay, because music is sound track. Ten, fifteen years ago, every arts student wanted to be a novelist or a playwright. I’d be amazed if you could find a single one now with such a dead-end ambition. They all want to make movies. Not write movies. You don’t write movies. You make movies.
Stephen Fry
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I do see myself as someone who has a lot of story ideas.
Jill Abramson