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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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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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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My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the dinner table were all about the factory floor and how many machines were running and what was happening in the business. I grew up very engaged in manufacturing and as part of a family business.
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Ultimately, we're making and selling a consumer good that needs to work and that needs to make customers happy.
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Steve Jobs once asked me for some advice about retail, but I said, 'I am not sure at all we are in the same business.'
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The truth is that the history of the last couple of thousand years has been broadly repeated attempts by various people or institutions - in a Freudian way - to rediscover the lost childhood of Europe, this golden age of peace and prosperity under the Romans, by trying to unify it.
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Somebody should tell the president of Mexico that when he appears on American television, he should speak English.
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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.
