Jay McInerney Quotes
... and what you are left with is a premonition of the way your life will fade behind you, like a book you have read too quickly, leaving a dwindling trail of images and emotions until all you can remember is a name.
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I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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And since Italy was involved in the space station as well as signed an agreement with NASA. And when the possibility to enter the 1996 Mission Specialist class.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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There's always pressure playing in the NHL. You want to play your best game every game. Expectations are always gonna be there; it's just important that you know how to handle expectations.
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Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
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When I started off in music, I started with a real innocence, a real love for the instrument, the writing the songs, the playing the songs and the sharing and the recording and experimenting. It was exciting. Then, this thing called success came, and something happened at some point where I became disenchanted, and I lost the innocence.
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Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.
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Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom.
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Every day I fantasise about situations and little themes I see in front of me that would make a good beginning of a story. But one has to be disciplined and just sit down and do it.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.
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But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about.
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I did my first recording. It was called The Champ.
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... and what you are left with is a premonition of the way your life will fade behind you, like a book you have read too quickly, leaving a dwindling trail of images and emotions until all you can remember is a name.
