Jay McInerney Quotes
I always hope people will like me, and I'm always afraid they will think I'm a fraud. I try harder than perhaps I should to make people like me, then it backfires. They think I'm a buffoon.
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Nobody wants to give up good players.
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
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Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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A lasting architecture has to have roots.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
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In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.
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People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
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Crocker's Rules didn't give you the right to say anything offensive, but other people could say potentially offensive things to you, and it was your responsibility not to be offended. This was surprisingly hard to explain to people; many people would read the careful explanation and hear, 'Crocker's Rules mean you can say offensive things to other people.'
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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
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You don't have to always write about big stuff. Writing is about expressing yourself, you know? It can be about small stuff, too.
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Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
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I wish there was a word more than 'love' itself to convey what I feel for you.
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I always hope people will like me, and I'm always afraid they will think I'm a fraud. I try harder than perhaps I should to make people like me, then it backfires. They think I'm a buffoon.
