Jill Abramson Quotes
I am in awe of women who have full family lives and seem to work round the clock in the 24/7 news cycle.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
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I remember doing one of those computer careers tests. It told me I'd make an ideal HGV lorry driver because I've got 100 per cent spatial awareness. I'd be able to back them into tight parking spots.
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I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.
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I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.
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I didn't intend 'Hector' to be a self-help book when I first started writing. I wrote it as a little tale about a psychiatrist, like me, who sets off around the world in order to discover the vital ingredients for happiness.
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On nights like this when the air is so clear, you end up saying things you ordinarily wouldn’t. Without even noticing what you’re doing, you open up your heart and just start talking to the person next to you—you talk as if you have no audience but the glittering stars, far overhead.
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For Nebraska and for America, I will continue my commitment to our national security, economic security, and family security.
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I am in awe of women who have full family lives and seem to work round the clock in the 24/7 news cycle.
