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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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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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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Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.
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As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.
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What they call 'play' (gym, travel, sports) looks like work.
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I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear. Everyday life. Someone may be talking to me and I may take it from that.
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You can be involved in media, and you can be involved in all the handbag hurling that goes along with it, and it's a different world.
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I thought 'I can't be an actor, I can't'. Then this film came up and it was like someone saying to me, 'You can, don't give up'.
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I am a great believer rather than the popular scientific way of dealing with things that 'Nothing exists unless you can prove it'. I am pretty much the other way that pretty much anything can exist unless you can disprove it.
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'The Canon' is a film podcast that also has much in common with books podcast 'Backlisted.' Both suggest you can get a lot of pleasure out of things that aren't new.
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As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain.
