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 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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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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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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To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.
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'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst accusation you could make. All that has gone now. The whole mindset has changed.
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When a kid graduates from being the youngest in a family to being a big brother or sister, there's an amazing transformation. They have to make a big effort, and when they accept their new position in the family, everybody breathes a sigh of relief. All of a sudden they seem bigger, and they seem smarter, and they feel good about it, too.
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Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.
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So turn it on, turn it up, and sing a longThis is real; this is your life in a song.Yeah this is country music.
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I look at Syracuse and I love the way that the coaches say they'll use me in their offense. I really like the family atmosphere there and I feel really comfortable there.
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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.
