"I think as an investigative reporter I had tough standards, but I don't think of myself as a tough person."

-- Jill Abramson

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“[On her collaboration with Adolph Green:] We stare at each other. We meet, whether or not we have a project, just to keep up a continuity of working. There are long periods when nothing happens, and it's just boring and disheartening. But we have a theory that nothing's wasted, even those long days of staring at one another. You sort of have to believe that, don't you? That you had to go through all that to get to the day when something did happen.”
“If you don't know where you come from, then you want know when you'er being taken back.”
“Some photographers shoot hundreds of pictures in a row and you need to be able to move from pose to pose very quickly while trying to make it look effortless.”

Source : Source: www.bullz-eye.com
“The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.”
“The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter.”
“We are surrounded by pictures; we have an abundance of theories about them, but it doesn't seem to do us any good. Knowing what pictures are doing, understanding them, doesn't seem necessarily to give us power over them.”
“Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.”

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