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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Wars should be over in three days or less...and the American people must be all for it from the outset.
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I felt that the best I could do for my father, and the best I could do for myself, and my mother and my family was to stay open to the experience, and learn whatever I could at every step of the way as it was going on.
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There are three kinds of brains: One understands of itself, another can be taught to understand, and the third can neither understand to itself or be taught to understand.
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Everyday decision-making around the world is constantly based on what came before us.
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Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends do it.
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As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain.