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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Coming out was crucial to changing attitudes about gays and lesbians: will people feel differently about abortion if they know their mother, their aunt, or their friend had one?
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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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Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.
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The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.
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As if to build a fence around the fatal emptiness inside her, she had to create a sunny person that she became. But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abbys of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it. Though she tried to forget it, the nothingness would visit her periodically - on a lonely rainy afternoon, or at dawn when she woke up from a nightmare. What she needed at such times was to be held by someone, anyone.
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I have been grateful for the influence of my grandmother and my grandfather in my life. I remember my grandmother as a queenly woman. My father could be stern, and my grandparents would remind him that we were just boys.
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As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain.
