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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If you're always telling people why you can't do something, if you parse everything and nitpick, I've got news for you: You're not going anywhere. If you want to make it in this world, learn to say, "sure, no problem." Practice. It's good for you. When is the last time you went on a limb trusting your gut feeling?
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Get used to dealing with failure as long as it doesn't hurt people around you, as long as it doesn't hurt you physically, or it doesn't hurt you so much that you can't pick yourself up.
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
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I was on the board of Andre Agassi's foundation, and seeing the way it operated blew my mind. In 2002, I told my wife, I want to start a foundation to give back, I want it to be for kids in hard circumstances, and I want it to be culinary-driven, because that's who I am.
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As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain.
