Jay McInerney Quotes
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If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
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A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want to achieve the success they had with their first again, but they don't know how to do it.
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I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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When I went to the 'Rush' audition, I was blown away by the script. I thought it was fantastic.
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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Without a dog, you'll be without at least one creature who thinks you are the smartest, most decent and heroic human being on the planet.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.
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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
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Obviously I'm not 21 anymore, but I think I can still throw with anybody.
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Acting and singing on 'One Tree Hill' was definitely one of the most incredible experiences of my life. I didn't even know I could act until I auditioned at the casting call for the part of Mia.
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The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper.
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I see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I don't care if it's a magazine or a bossy friend - when somebody says, 'This is what's elegant, this is what's trendy,' if it doesn't represent you, you're not going to be happy.
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The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.
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I think for an artist it's really important to have experiences, and I've had a lot of those. It's definitely inspired my lyrics and my style, even down to what I wear.
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I love being pregnant in general.
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Inaudible music may seem an odd notion, even a foolishly Romantic one-although it is partly the Romantic prejudice in favor of sensuous experience that makes it seem odd. Still, there are details of music which cannot be heard but only imagined, and even certain aspects of musical form which cannot be realized in sound even by the imagination.
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If the Tenth Amendment were still taken seriously, most of the federal government's present activities would not exist. That's why no one in Washington ever mentions it.
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I never imagine myself as anything. I've never had a goal or any future vision at all. I just do what's in front of me.
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I'm a romantic; you have to be to marry four times.
