Jill Abramson Quotes
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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
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Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better.
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There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.
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The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
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I was raised doing martial arts.
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Sometimes people ask me how old I am, and I have to stop and remember. I forget myself!
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I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
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I am disappointed and disturbed by both the NFL and the Dodgers - but much more by the Dodgers.
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I never trusted good-looking boys.
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The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
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People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.
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The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.
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I usually meditate twice a day: Transcendental Meditation.
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There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.
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My all-time favorite program in my entire life was 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'
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Take a newspaper account of Waterloo or Trafalgar, with all the small advertisements: it seems much more real than reading about it in a history book.
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I like to do yoga, Pilates, dance, and things like that.
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I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.
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It sounded like walls tumbling, liberty bells chiming, government buildings being stormed. It sounded like a revolution. It sounded like hope.
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Everything you are seeking is seeking you in return. Therefore, everything you want is already yours. So, you don't have to get anything. It is simply a matter of becoming more aware of what you already possess.
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I am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will.
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My sister's an actor as well.
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I liked models since I was 3 years old. As I grew older, I started developing a penchant towards makeup, pedicures, etc. I used to carry out the procedures at my home itself.
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As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain.
