Jay McInerney Quotes
You notice for the first time that she has freckles. You didn't know they still made them.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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My father is an amazing person.
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When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
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With publicity comes humiliation.
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At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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The United States being a limited form of government, one of the restrictions to which it is subject is in regard to its power to levy taxes. The States may levy them for a great many purposes for which Congress cannot, because to the States belong all of the powers not delegated to Congress.
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We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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Filipino talents and skills are becoming ubiquitous in many parts of the world. Returning Filipino workers have helped improve our skills and technological standards.
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His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
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I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.
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It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.
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I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
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Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in looks and character, that whoever saw the daughter saw the mother.
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I wrote the first draft of 'Plan B' the summer after I turned 21.
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You notice for the first time that she has freckles. You didn't know they still made them.
